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“Heavy Weather Sailing”, Martin Thomas and Peter Bruce, Adlard Coles Nautical, 8th edition, published 2022.
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Here’s the list of chapters from the current edition. What a brains trust!
2 Oct 2024
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“Heavy Weather Sailing”, Martin Thomas and Peter Bruce, Adlard Coles Nautical, 8th edition, published 2022.
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I may be obsessive. A glance at my bookcase suggests so: (Why did I miss the third and the sixth editions?) Anyway, it’s always been...
2 Oct 2024
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I have myself used a BA chart of an inlet on the coast of Spitzbergen marked: “From surveys by Lt Parry, RN, and the boats of HMS...
2 Oct 2024
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Tales of giant waves have been told for Centuries and usually dismissed as Sailors yarns until modern observations and research have...
2 Oct 2024
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Back in the 1970s I was on a 12000 ton ship that got hit by a very large wave. Did a fair bit of damage and completely submerged the...
2 Oct 2024
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Preferring not to hijack the intriguing 'Adlard Coles Fan Club' thread here, I'd mention Rupert Holmes' PBO article and offer this...
2 Oct 2024
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Not rumours. South westerlies gales blowing over south west going Aghulas current, typically off the Transkie coast around Pt...
2 Oct 2024
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My memory is failing, I thought she sank. Several others come to mind, RMS Edinburgh Castle in the mid 60's 'shipped one green' all the...
2 Oct 2024
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The Ben Line ship was the “Bencruachan”: This was after the temporary repair; she sailed back to Britain like this. The NOL boxboat...
2 Oct 2024
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Can anybody help identify this boat?
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Mast, boom, sails, rigging, engine? If its not there you are looking at a good deal more than the value of a good Halcyon, and thats...
2 Oct 2024
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Halcyon 23. The rudder may well be aboard as it was transom hung.
2 Oct 2024
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I suspect it's a Halcyon 23 or a Crystal 23. (The former was derived from the latter.)
2 Oct 2024
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Definitely not a Centaur of Kingfisher, my money's on a Halcyon 23
2 Oct 2024
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Turdstones!! Well thats we call them!
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Back to the serious questionb posted by OP. The more you use your boat the less likely it will become a home for birds. Areal problem...
2 Oct 2024
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Where I moor, we have fish eagles and yellow bill kites that tend to keep the messy birds away. The issue we have are monkeys who raid...
2 Oct 2024
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