Recent content by ChrisJBrady

We are seeking recordings of this definitive series of 26 x 1 hour episodes from the late Michael Mason. We have about 50% - but in order to preserve the series for all time we need many other episodes. Please PM me if you can lay your hands on any reel-reel tapes or cassettes etc. Thank you...

Has anyone else noticed that there are far fewer swans at Kingston in recent years. In November there were hardly any at all. Yet a few years ago there were many hundreds. We have heard that they are being killed and eaten on the Nene, but the Thames?!!!

Regarding 9/11 - we too were on a tall ship re-enactment voyage just before. We had heard that a group of American Mormons wanted to re-enact the sailing of migrants from Europe to America 150 years ago. They were seeking crew. We applied and were accepted. We are not Momorns...

Two reality tall ship series have recently been discovered on YouTube. These are: 1/ Tall Ship Chronicles on Picton Castle (Canadian BC - 2001 / 2002) 2/ The Ship on HM Bark Endeavour (BBC 2 - 2002) None have been issued on DVD for various reasons. So these are from home recordings. - they...

Are there any specific tall ship forums on the web. I'm looking to try and contact past shipmates from vessels I have crewed on including: HMS Rose, Christian Radich (ex-Seatrek), HM Bark Endeavour, Sir Winston Churchill, T.S. Royalist 1, Prince William, Soren Larson, Lord Nelson, Tenacious...

Pretty ship it may be - but run safely? I urge folks to view the CBS exposure of the cover-up conducted by the ship when Laura Gainey was washed overboard in an Atlantic storm in 2006. The official report from the investigation concluded that the fault lay firmly with the weak leadership on...