Category: Our Stories
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Greenland sharks have broken the record for longevity
The Greenland shark has become the oldest known backboned animal researchers say, “weighing in” at around 400 years old.Scientists used radiocarbon dating to discover the age of 28 of the animals, and estimated that one… […]
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Halcyon days – winter sailing
Winter sailing is often great, in these halcyon days before Christmas; we were out in just our jerseys yesterday, December 17, in the Heard 28 Isabel. Halcyon days are often associated with high pressure during… […]
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Was the romance of a wooden boat partly because she was a bargain?
Can you remember getting into boating? Chances are a wooden boat made sense because you could pick one up in quite good condition for a few thousand pounds, and that is still true. I remember… […]
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RIP Paul Elvstrom 1928 – 2016
Four times Olympic gold medal winner and all round sailing legend Paul Elvstrom has died, at his home in Denmark aged 88. Elvstrom was a lifelong sailor – and raced competitively for 60 years. He was… […]
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Books for Christmas
Buying a good book for a friend or loved one? We have a great spread of this season’s best nautical books in our December-January issue… From a great book of knots to a compendium of… […]
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A great sailor, by a great sailor
Knox-Johnston on Tilman. As Tilman’s books are re-released under the Lodestar imprint Britain’s best-known sailor Sir Robin Knox-Johnston profiles the life of the extraordinary mountaineer sailor Bill Tilman, a high latitudes navigator whose adventurous… […]
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Sailing an Achilles 24 in Scottish waters
Join Rob Bashford as he sails his Achilles 24 through the Caledonian Canal and up the western coast of Scotland in a bid to go “over the top”. Rob gives us a basic lesson in… […]
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Lucy L Ford and her “dinghy experience”
We have some great writers on Classic Sailor. And here is a great piece, from Lucy L Ford, on the pitfalls of going ashore in the dinghy: The ‘dinghy experience’ for the ungainly housewife has… […]
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Lloyd’s Registers of Yachts – all of them, on one USB
As reported in CS, the monumental task of converting the 94 volumes of Lloyd’s Register of Yachts has been completed and compiled on a memory stick by the Association of Yachting Historians. And now (just… […]
