Category: Our Stories
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Over the Yardarm: More About Gin.
By Guy Venables We’ve all been there, late night, sitting on the internet trying to gauge how much to bid on a brand new foreign spouse. The trouble is you simply can’t tell how… […]
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Aerorganic Sculpture by Adam Warwick Hall
Fascinated by aircraft, animals and plants from an early age, Adam trained as a sculptor and then worked as a sculptor and model maker for the Film and TV industry at Shepperton and Pinewood Studios.… […]
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Andrew Bray: Keep it simple!
Keep it simple! “One of my cruising ideals, often preached but sadly, rarely practised… How do you define simple?” Last year I was invited to judge a cruising log competition. This is not as simple… […]
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Navigation Basics: Course to Steer
You know what point to aim for, the wind is free so you can go straight there. Except that you need to take into account the speed and direction of the tide to determine your… […]
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Under the Cabin Lamp by H Alker Tripp
Sub-headed: ” A yachtsman’s gossip” There is ‘nothing of high mark’ in any of these pages Alker Tripp, quoting Dickens, says of this book in the introduction… but he does hope they carry the smell… […]
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Sailing Gaffers by Viv Head
A definitive history of the Old Gaffers Association, both afloat and ashore, covering the various regional areas in a series of yarns that brings this colourful organisation to life on the page. One of our… […]
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Over the Yardarm: Making a toast
By Guy Venables I’ve often thought that when it comes to drinking toasts there’s invariably something sentimental about them. “Well, obviously,” I hear you say, as they’re usually conceived with an arm around a best… […]
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THE FROZEN FRONTIER: Polar Bound through the Northwest Passage By Jane Maufe
This is a charming description of the challenge of attempting to be the first private vessel through the most northerly route of the Northwest passage, followed by cruising around Alaska and then back the following… […]
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Adrift: Seventy Six Days Lost at Sea by Steven Callahan
Part survival story and partly a spiritual journey through a horrifyingly grueling event, this book is not only a particularly eloquent survival story but it could even be perceived as a manual. Callahan built his… […]
