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Thursday, April 04, 2013

Photos of Boats I have owned – Part 4

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  'Micro'   Continuing the series ‘Photographs of Boats I have owned’ here are a few more from 1998 when I joined t...
Wednesday, April 03, 2013

Photos of Boats I have owned – Part 3

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  'Lisa' I can’t remember when I bought ‘Lisa’, a Shipmate Senior Mk 1 trailer sailer, but for sure, I kept her for two yea...
Tuesday, April 02, 2013

Photos of Boats I have owned – Part 2

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  After ‘Twinstar’ I bought a Hunter Europa 19 and fitted her out. I had many adventures cruising and racing her, including a c...
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Monday, April 01, 2013

Photos of Boats I have owned – Part 1

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  'Tyrol'   I do not have photos of every boat I have owned. The earliest was ‘Tyrol’. She was an eleven foot Shortened Sco...
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Sunday, March 31, 2013

Shadow, Light and Darkness

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  A shadow is temporary – fleeting - here for a moment, then gone for ever. A shadow cannot exist unless there is light and substance...
Saturday, March 30, 2013

Gaff Cutters

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  A gaff cutter is a fore and aft sailing vessel that has one mast, and a gaff that supports the mainsail. She has two or more ...
Thursday, March 28, 2013

Dodge the Potholes

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  Two 'Standard' potholes Yesterday morning Ray Clark and his team at BBC Essex, during the Breakfast Show, joked about poth...
Wednesday, March 27, 2013

Hands Shannon One Design

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  I was perusing Paul Mullings’s blog, ‘I’ve Been Thinking’ at http://flounderman.blogspot.co.uk/?view=timeslide#!/   when I notic...
Tuesday, March 26, 2013

Roger D. Taylor – Voyages of a Simple Sailor

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  Kindle version   On 3 rd February, 2013 I wrote an article about Roger Taylor’s, ‘Mingming’. I included three links to Amazon....
Monday, March 25, 2013

My Cruising Logs

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  Here I’ve assembled a number of links that will take you to accounts of some of the cruises I’ve done with my own boats and with ot...