Category: Our Stories
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Anthony Osler – Marine Artist
The key elements of Anthony Osler’s work are the seas and skies of East Anglia, together with its traditional sailing craft, especially barges and smacks, and the unique light of the region. The results are… […]
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Herreshoff: American Masterpieces
by Maynard Bray, Benjamin Mendlowitz, Claas Van Der Linde, Kurt Hasselbalch This handsome, large format, 288-page, full-colour book features the finest examples of the Herreshoff Manufacturing Company’s boats, along with 200 of the most sumptuous… […]
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Off The Deep End – by Nic Compton
While some of us go sailing for sanity it is also well known that the sea can have the opposite effect, as this well-written volume explores. It’s a mix of general stories, such as the… […]
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Raymarine’s New High-Performance Marine Radar
Press Release: Raymarine’s Magnum High-Performance Marine Radar Open Array Radar Brings Superior Target Tracking and Long-Range Identification for Blue Water Vessels WILSONVILLE, Ore. – May 9, 2018 – FLIR Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: FLIR) announced today… […]
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South Georgia is free of rats
After 200 years of wreaking havoc on the local wildlife rats have at last been eradicated from the South Atlantic British island of South Georgia. The biggest rat eradication programme was declared a success this… […]
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The new Henri Lloyd Elite Offshore Collection
From Henri Lloyd: The Henri Lloyd Elite Offshore Collection is constructed from the latest in Elite fabric technology; ELITE//2.0 and is derived and evolved from the multi award winning Elite range. ELITE//2.0 dries 30% quicker… […]
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The plastic-hungry catapillar
An unlikely ally may be coming to our assistance in the shape of a lowly caterpillar. Developmental biologist and amateur beekeeper Federica Bertocchini of the Institute of Biomedicine and Biotechnology of Cantabria in Spain was… […]
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Mass beachings: why do whales do it?
Although we’re always looking for modern culprits to blame for mass whale beaching it has to be said that many of them can be explained by natural phenomena, not least because they’ve been reported throughout… […]
