Classic Boat

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The 60ft (18.2m) gentleman’s motor yacht Mabrouka, built at Camper & Nicholson in Gosport in 1926, was bought by Tino Zervudachi in 2015. After a small refit at Classic Works (La Ciotat) and a winter in Porto Montenegro, she was relocated to Piraeus

Practical Boat Owner

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Across the sea of gleaming fibreglass and rainbow flags, three foreboding masts slunk into view. While brokers adjusted lines and polished hulls, Russian frigate Shtandart ghosted towards the pontoons at the Southampton International Boat Show. From

Sailing Today

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Kicking Canvas is a memoir by Alfred Bestic about his time at sea in the last days of sail. There are a number of accounts like these generally dating from the late 1890s through to the 1930s which recount the final dying throes of the great age of s

Practical Boat Owner

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A man who drowned after becoming entangled with the anchor line of a sinking 39ft motorboat off the Fleetwood coast, Lancashire, was not wearing a lifejacket. A Marine Accident Investigation Branch report said at 0800 on 31 May 2020, Globetrotter san

You South Africa

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18 The number of days two New Zealand hikers were missing after getting lost in foggy conditions. Jessica O’Connor and Dion Reynolds had gone hiking in the Kahurangi National Park on the South Island and planned to be away for five days. After they l

Trade-A-Boat

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James got his start in sailing young, learning the ropes on a P Class at just six years of age. Since then he has captained both catamarans, ranging from 56–82 ft, and monohulls up to 92 feet, out of Europe and the Caribbean. He’s also worked as a ch

America's Civil War

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Amid the pandemonium, George W. Carter of the 16th Connecticut Infantry followed the lead of many of his fellow soldiers and leapt from the damaged steamer Massachusetts onto the deck of Black Diamond. The 20-year-old Company D drummer quickly realiz

Who Do You Think You Are?

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w bit.ly/fmp-armed-overseas Findmypast’s collection includes records from TNA about deaths at sea in the 19th century. w southampton.gov.uk/arts-heritage/ southampton-archives/plimsoll.aspx Search by ship’s name for scanned copies of inquiries into

Trade-A-Boat

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James got his start in sailing young, learning the ropes on a P Class at just six years of age. Since then he has captained catamarans, ranging from 56–82 feet, and monohulls up to 92 feet, out of Europe and the Caribbean. He’s also worked as a chef

Classic Boat

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Theme park rides are child’s play compared with racing aboard 141ft (43m) schooner Columbia under the command of Seth Salzmann. At the helm, however, choreographing trim and tactics, he manoeuvres 174 tonnes of steel with the ease of a dinghy in a po

Who Do You Think You Are?

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Simon Wills’ ‘Focus On’ article about Victorian shipwrecks in the December issue was a huge boost to my research efforts – thank you. I have a hand-drawn family tree of past generations of my father’s family, which included several master mariners. M

Sail

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At press time, Vestas 11th Hour Racing and organizers of the 2017-18 Volvo Ocean race were still not saying much about what, if anything is going to be done to prevent collisions like the one that occurred between Vestas 11th Hour Racing and a commer

How It Works

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Glass-bottom boat tours are popular in Pavlopetri, Greece. The first cruise ship in over 40 years docked at Port Royal in January 2020. Mauna Kea is the tallest mountain at 10,211 metres, but more than half is below sea level. The San José galleon

Yachting World

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www.twitter.com/yachtingworld www.facebook.com/yachtingworldmagazine We received several letters about our feature ‘Cruise the world, without a boat’ in the October 2020 issue. Here are just a couple: I have made passages on 10 different boats and sa

Motor Boat & Yachting

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If you haven’t been to a boat show in a while – and let’s face it, few of us have – then this is your chance to view the broadest range of new boats you’ll ever see at a British boat show. To help make the most of your day we’ve picked out 16 of the

Who Do You Think You Are?

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The Register of Wages and Effects of Deceased Seamen (1852–1889) is held by The National Archives at Kew in series BT153. The record has been digitised and is available via Findmypast (findmypast.co.uk) and Ancestry (ancestry.co.uk) This column deta

Yachts International

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Discover this exciting opportunity to invest in Adventure and Luxury! Enjoy the fabulous yachting lifestyle available onboard this stylishly designed Lagoon Seventy 7 catamaran we call the TradeWinds 20/20. This state-of-the-art yacht will start its

Naples Illustrated

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Bill Charbonneau, the founder and principal of Naples Nantucket Yacht Group, grew up in Massachusetts and enjoyed summers in Cape Cod, where he slept with the windows open to hear the foghorn from the nearby lighthouse. “We had a boat anchored in fro

Classic Boat

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Back in 2018, an exciting email landed in my computer. It hailed from a cheerful sounding chap called Ben McMinn who was inviting me to come for a sail on Hightime – his Alan Buchanan-designed 25 footer. Ben had tracked me down as an ancient (in all

Sail

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WWW.DUFOUR-YACHTS.COM • +33 (0) 546 30 07 60 Founded in 1964 by a young engineer, Michel Dufour, the shipyard has gone on to become one of the biggest in the world. Italian design combined with French savoir-faire creates boats with incredible looks,

Trade-A-Boat

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James got his start in sailing young, learning the ropes on a P Class at just six years of age. Since then he has captained catamarans, ranging from 56–82 feet, and monohulls up to 92 feet, out of Europe and the Caribbean. He’s also worked as a chef

Boating NZ

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Jason is prominent as a member of the Classic Yacht Association and as Slipmaster of ‘The Slipway Milford’, the yacht and launch repairers in Milford Creek in the premises once run by the late John Gladden and recently by Geoff Bagnall. Jason has own

Ships Monthly

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ON SALE DEC 23 PLUS FIRTH OF FORTH SHIPPING • Ships and shipping in the Firth of Forth, home to three major ports, six harbours, two gas terminals and the Royal Yacht Britannia. BROKEN UP IN ALIAGA • A photographic look at some interesting old passen

Boat International

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Yacht: Lush Length: 27m Year: 2012 Isolating in: Marlow, UK Yacht location: Mid-Atlantic The boat’s on her way back? She left Antigua after waiting around for a weather window. Initially we weren’t sure where we wanted to take her. We thought about

Classic Boat

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Possibly the last, probably the best, and definitely the best-known of Looe’s lugger fleet, Our Daddy has just been revitalised and is sailing in top fettle again Andrillot, the first of a legendary class of yachts, is restored and sailing again. She

Boat International

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Finding a refit yard for M5’s recent refit was no easy task. They sought a location with the potential for minimal weather delays and where they could both haul the boat and pull the mast. For a 78-metre boat with an 89-metre mast, options are limite

Ships Monthly

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I read Ships Monthly with great pleasure every month and the article about Sea Cloud (SM, Oct) was of particular interest. One of my distant relatives, Johan Hansen, was a crew member on the vessel in 1933, but when they were in Nantes in France that

Boating NZ

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It’s a stunning 80-hectare island lying between the northern entrance of the Mahurangi Harbour and the southern entrance to Kawau Island. After John and Charlotte Chandler bought it from Sir George Grey in 1880 it got the name ‘Chandler’s Island’. Co

Yachting Monthly

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GORDON DAVIES and his partner have sailed their Sirius 31 DS for the last eight summers from Essex to the Baltic In many marinas in northern Europe, boats are moored by securing their bows to the pontoon and their sterns to two posts. These ‘box moor

Classic Boat

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Eros, the US-flagged schooner that was built in Lowestoft in 1939, now has its own YouTube channel, with regular videos documenting life aboard for the crew when not on charter. Search for ‘Sailing Eros’. ■