Category: Seamanship
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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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Heaving the Log
A line, to which markers or ‘knots’ were attached at eight fathom (47ft 3inches to be precise) intervals, was wound on the reel which one man holds over his head. To the end of this… […]
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Navigation basics: Latitude and longitude
Dividing the earth; meridians and parallels and how they can be used to pinpoint any locations. Degrees, minutes and the Nautical Mile. And how the grid scale on a nautical chart uses these measurements to… […]
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Navigation basics: Estimated position
By John Clarke of Team Sailing Fixing our position, and calculating our speed and course – the EP. See diagrams below. In another article we went through how to measure distance and bearing on a… […]
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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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Launching the Lifeboat.
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How Whooper wins the day
From our December issue: Opening photo shows: Whooper at the RYS Bicentenary regatta. Inside her is Cereste, third yacht is the S&S Clarionet – Photo James Robinson Taylor Solent based Whooper is a winning yacht… […]
