Category: Our Stories
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Making and throwing a heaving line
Dan Houston shows how to use a heaving line – and relays how to make a Monkey’s Fist or a quick knot to go on the end of it A typical heaving line is a… […]
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Sailing the Schooner Mariette
The schooner Mariette was built 101 years ago and is still being raced competitively enough to win at regattas against younger boats. So what is she like to crew? David Abramczyk finds out; photos by… […]
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Secret Anchorages of Brittany by Peter Cumberlidge
To delve into this book is to yearn to be making passage across the Channel and close with the magical parts of coast described in this valuable book. Peter Cumberlidge has done more than a… […]
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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… […]
