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18 janvier 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...

15 décembre 2011

The beginnings The Royal National Lifeboat Institution was founded in 1824, but went under the name of The National Institution for the Pres...

02 novembre 2011

The coastguard services are national organisations responsible for various services at sea. However, they have widely different responsibilities in di...

25 octobre 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...

17 octobre 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...

11 octobre 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...

09 octobre 2011

On Saturday 5th November 2011, 6 teams of 11 professional sailors will depart from Alicante, Spain, to take part in one of the toughest races in ...

29 septembre 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...

11 septembre 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 ...

11 septembre 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...

07 septembre 2011

While many everyday sayings certainly have genuine nautical origins, there are others which have unproven claims and still more where it is easy ...

25 août 2011

The hows, whys and wheres behind the names Part 1. The Eastern Area – Viking to Thames "Forties, Cromarty, Forth, Tyne, Dogg...

25 août 2011

The “hows, whys and wheres” behind the names Part 2. The Southern Area – Dover to Sole “Wight, Portland, Plymou...

25 août 2011

The “hows, whys and wheres” behind the names. Part 3. The Western Area – Lundy to South East Iceland “Shannon, ...

12 août 2011

On Sunday 14th August yachts and crews will be hoisting their sails to take part in the 44th Fastnet Race. Here is the story behind the Rock and...

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