30 January 2012
For centuries people whose lives depended on the weather have relied on Folklore to tell them what to expect. Farmers and sailors in particular d...
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18 January 2012
2012 is the year the Olympic Games comes to London, but the Olympic and Paralympic Sailing competitions will be held in Weymouth Bay and Portland...
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15 December 2011
The beginnings
The Royal National Lifeboat Institution was founded in 1824, but went under the name of The National Institution for the Pres...
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02 November 2011
The coastguard services are national organisations responsible for various services at sea. However, they have widely different responsibilities in di...
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25 October 2011
No matter what sort of voyage a vessel is undertaking, it is likely that it will come across the phenomenon of the Tidal Race. This is a natural occur...
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17 October 2011
Right – you’re on your way to your mooring, on the 2 nd Monday in August, to spend a relaxing weekend on the water, away from the tr...
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11 October 2011
In 1978 the MS Munchen sent a garbled Mayday message from the mid-Atlantic. The ship was never found but an exhaustive search found just a few bi...
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29 September 2011
Crossing sea areas, which a large volume of traffic is regularly using, is a totally different ball game to meeting a lone ship in open water. Vo...
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11 September 2011
Films and books, with characters such as Long John Silver and more recently, Jack Sparrow, have romanticised the idea of pirates. But in reality ...
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11 September 2011
Whether your preferred mode of transport is a small dinghy or a luxury yacht or cruiser, there is a chance that you might be unfortunate enough t...
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07 September 2011
While many everyday sayings certainly have genuine nautical origins, there are others which have unproven claims and still more where it is easy ...
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25 August 2011
The hows, whys and wheres behind the names
Part 1. The Eastern Area – Viking to Thames
"Forties, Cromarty, Forth, Tyne, Dogg...
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25 August 2011
The “hows, whys and wheres” behind the names
Part 2. The Southern Area – Dover to Sole
“Wight, Portland, Plymou...
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25 August 2011
The “hows, whys and wheres” behind the names.
Part 3. The Western Area – Lundy to South East Iceland
“Shannon, ...
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18 July 2011
For over four decades, Sunseeker have been designing and producing some of the world's most exquisite boats. A reputable brand of luxury ...
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