Category: Our Stories
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Polishing up the gelcoat
Topsides looking a bit dull? David Parker describes how to buff up your boat by choosing the right polishing compounds and a power polisher When you have owned wooden boats, as attractive and charismatic as… […]
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Tally Ho – the new keel
By Leo Goolden This episode, I work on turning an enormous lump of Purpleheart Timber into a new Keel for the historic sailing vessel, Tally Ho. I make a plywood pattern from the old keel,… […]
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Cruising for Enterprising types
Colin Gilbert converted his Enterprise to go dinghy cruising… to Beaulieu, Truro and Chichester Harbour Some sailing friends may have noticed various temporary additions to my Enterprise which do nothing to help it win races.… […]
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Instructors’ tales: The pierhead jump
In which Trevor Clifton describes some of the skills needed to sail out of harbour We sailed everywhere. No engines was the rule. That was when you could tie up on harbour walls. It’d be… […]
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Heaving the lead
As soon as a vessel came near land her crew would begin “sounding” the depth of water using a line marked with depths and a length of lead. The word sounding is dervived from the… […]
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The Club Sanctuary
Guy Venables discovers the sanctuary of the sailing club involves more than low bar prices I have just joined a very nice little sailing club. There are many reasons to join one, the camaraderie, the… […]
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Alone at sea Gloucester in the age of Dorymen 1623 – 1939 By John N Morris
The story of the schooner fishery of the NE part of the United States of America and the Maritimes of Canada is one of danger, conquered by inspiration and innovation. As fishermen ventured further offshore… […]
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Writing the Thames By Christina Hardyment
There’s a bit of the Thames in many of us. I’ve lived alongside it, five doors upriver from the Tate Gallery, worked alongside it, sailed up the tidal bit, motored on the upriver bit, written… […]
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Lucy L Ford: A romantic night afloat
In early May, at the start of what was to be one of our coldest summers, the newly appointed President of the Pontoon Camping Association decided to encourage new membership and extend the BBQ experience… […]
