Artwork predicts sea level rise
An installation artwork using lines of light predicts the effect of sea level rises at an arts centre on North Uist in Scotland's Outer Hebrides islands. The installation uses LED sensors running lines across buildings [...]
CNN shelves Shirley and Mainsail
British Olympic sailor and TV presenter Shirley Robertson has announced that CNN Mainsail the programme she has fronted as part of the American broadcaster's global sporting coverage for the past 13 years, has been shelved. [...]
Princess Anne made honorary member of CA
HRH The Princess Royal accepts Honorary Membership of the Cruising Association Princess Anne has accepted an invitation to become an Honorary Member of the Cruising Association (CA), joining an elite group that includes sailing legend [...]
German trader reported for illegal teak
Key supplier was ‘teak kingpin’ who colluded with officials to defraud Myanmar Evidence of serious repeated violations of the European Union Timber Regulation (EUTR) by a trader of Myanmar teak has been submitted to German [...]
The beautiful Morgan Giles 43s
Catching up with the beautiful Morgan Giles 43s - now sailing again as a fleet (after they were sold out of the Royal Navy in the 1980s) and being run by Classic Sail, of Chichester, [...]
Blue Plaque at Sir Alec Rose’s Grocery
Alec Rose, the yachtsman Grocer from Southsea who sailed around the world in Lively Lady in 1967/68 has been honoured in his home town with a blue plaque over the shop which he used to [...]
Eight bells – John “Woody” Wooderson
It is sad to report the death, on Saturday January 4, of Johnson Wooderson, better known as Woody to classic sailors and others in the wider sailing world. By Dan Houston For the last 15 [...]
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. Dan aboard the Spirit of Falmouth After he had been [...]
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... [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Staying warm with wool
Stamping around a British boatyard in winter can give you cold feet just to think about it... But help is at hand from London chandlers Arthur Beale who have just added seaboot hose to their [...]