Category: Our Stories
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Life in the deep
Made by Neal Agarwal. The Deep Sea Click on the following link –FUNDEEPSEA– for a fun and informative infographic showing life in the sea according to depth. Scroll down through the water column from the… […]
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Taking the right turn
How sailing round the British isles with Turn to Starboard helped former Royal Marine Dan Fielding find a new purpose for his life. After he had been medically discharged from the Royal Marines in 2008,… […]
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How to survive a Tall Ship
Guy Venables finds out that turning up in posh foulies is all wrong, but on the other hand attempting to ‘fit in’ with the crew is also fraught with hazards, both social and physical… and…… […]
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Instructors’ tales: Tea’s Up
In which Bob Hammond discovers that, as the instructor aboard, his novice crew are likely to take him, very precisely, at his word… “Just try making it in the sink mate,” I suggested It is… […]
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London Light by Jim Lawrence
A Sailorman’s Story. As the age of sail as a widespread commercial activity drifts beyond memory, we increasingly have to go to the archives to find out how things were done. And so a book… […]
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Arthur, Nancy… and me
Peter Willis talks to Dan Houston (Classic Sailor) about his lifelong passion for the children’s author Arthur Ransome and his 1931 Hillyard cutterNancy Blackett. Peter was recognised in the 2019 Royal Yachting Association Volunteer Awards… […]
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Scuttling the Trafalgar survivor HMS Implacable
Short film showing the scuttling of the 18th century wooden-wall 74-gun ship HMS Implacable by the Royal Navy in 1949, after she was towed from Portsmouth out to Saint Catherine’s Deep, a spot east of… […]
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The amazing museum of sailors’ knots
Having hosted his own Museum of Knots and Sailors’ Ropework in his Ipswich back garden since 1996 the red-capped sage-of-sennit Des Pawson had another knotty problem to solve… Namely what to do with the hundreds… […]
