Category: Our Stories
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Artist Janet Shearer
Janet Shearer has been painting and sailing all her life. Since moving to Cornwall in 1980 and living so close to the sea, her love of water in all its forms has become the focus… […]
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Grimsay Lobster Boats
By Mike Smylie For a tiny Outer Hebridean island with a small population, Grimsay has had an incredible amount of boats locally built for the lobster fishery. In 1846 the census showed 269 inhabitants, and… […]
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Kuhn Rikon Duromatic 5l pressure cooker
We consider a pressure cooker an essential item on board nowadays. They’re easy to use, they retain flavour, they’re efficient and time friendly as well as – nowadays – totally safe. They enable you to… […]
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Helle floating knife
A really good sailing knife can be a lifelong companion until it goes overboard and is lost forever. Here however we have a really well made knife that also floats. The Hellefisk has a stainless… […]
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The Cobb Barbecue
Invented as a cooking system in rural Africa this is a shoe-in for use on a boat as, firstly it’s a barbecue and oven that you can pick up and move and secondly you can… […]
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Barton Classic Blocks
New block on the block We first saw the new Barton Victory Heritage collection of ash-cheeked blocks when Barton’s Suzanne Blaustone visited our stand at Southampton Boat Show. At that point the blocks were still… […]
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Mousehole, Cornwall
There are two significant dates in the life of Mousehole, the tiny West Cornwall harbour. The first is the night before Christmas Eve, celebrated in the village as Tom Bawcock’s Eve in memory of the… […]
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Feature In praise of the She 36
By Peter Poland Of all the design offices to rise to prominence in the 20th century, Sparkman & Stephens must rank near the top. From cruising yachts to America’s Cup 12 metres (with an unsurpassed… […]
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Itchen Ferries
By Mike Smylie I owned an Itchen Ferry once and have fond memories of her beached alongside the old Supermarine shed at Woolston, across the river from Southampton. Pal of Itchen she was called though… […]
