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    C. Sherman Hoyt memoirs: A typically frank extract from Yankee Yachtsman

    • December 8, 2020

    Born in 1878, C Sherman Hoyt sailed in every racing yacht imaginable for the best part of 60 years. Tireless, highly skilled, with an almost uncanny ability to spot a…

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    Sailing with humpback whales: An amazing extract from Orca by John A Pennington

    • November 24, 2020

    It’s far too easy for a retired ocean sailor like me who served his time 40 years ago in a freer, simpler world, to imagine that the age of high…

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    How (not) to set up a wind vane: An extract from Tom Fisher’s Arctic Smoke blog

    • November 17, 2020

    Like me, you may have followed with interest the stories about failed self-steering wind vanes that emerged from the last Golden Globe Race. My own experience of a Windpilot Pacific…

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    Extract from Sailing through Russia: From the Arctic to the Black Sea

    • November 10, 2020

    When the Great Seamanship series was planned back in 2004 it was about giant waves, dismastings, amazing rescues and the like. Research, however, led me into a wonderland of nautical…

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    Storm sailing in a 16ft open boat: Extract from The Sea Takes No Prisoners

    • November 3, 2020

    I’m always delighted to find a book about high adventure undertaken with no sponsorship and nothing out of the ordinary in way of funds. The Sea Takes No Prisoners, recently…

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    Learning the ropes: An extract from Shakedown Cruise by Nigel Calder

    • October 27, 2020

    Nigel Calder’s works on the technicalities of boat systems are accepted worldwide as Bibles, but he doesn’t generally trumpet his vast cruising experience. He is a modest man, so when…

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    Sailing Cape Horn on Pelagic: An extract from Rounding the Horn by Dallas Murphy

    • October 20, 2020

    ‘Rounding the Horn – Being a story of Williwaws and Windjammers, Drake, Darwin, Murdered Missionaries and Naked Natives – a deck’s eye view of Cape Horn’. So reads the front…

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    Solo Caribbean sailing: Trevor Robertson on 38ft Diva’s memorable maiden voyage

    • October 6, 2020

    “In 2017-18, sailed from New Zealand to the Antarctic Peninsula by way of Cape Horn (60 days). Spent three weeks pottering around old haunts in the Peninsula then north to…

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    Inside a legendary Whitbread: Extract from Maiden by Tracy Edwards and Tim Madge

    • September 8, 2020

    Tracy raises the funds, finds the boat of the same name and skippers the first all-female crew around the globe in the world’s greatest fully-crewed yacht race. The years 1989/90…

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    Sailing around the world in an 18ft boat: Extract from Australia The Hard Way

    • August 10, 2020

    Our Great Seamanship series tells stories of supremely difficult epic voyages, interspersed with tales of the humdrum that excel by virtue of being beautifully written. Australia The Hard Way by…

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    Cruising Patagonia: An extract from Winter in Fireland by Nicholas Coghlan

    • June 30, 2020

    Nicholas Coghlan circumnavigated in the late 1980s with Jenny, his wife, on their small yacht, Tarka the Otter, before taking up a career in the Canadian Foreign Service. Many years…

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    Finishing a solo circumnavigation: An extract from Solitaire Spirit by Les Powles

    • June 23, 2020

    If he hadn’t chosen to write a book, Les Powles could well have remained one of the unsung heroes of the ocean, men and women who dare to do in…

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    Sailing the Southern Ocean in a 27ft boat: Extract from Captain Bungle’s Odyssey

    • June 16, 2020

    Captain Bungle’s Odyssey by Paddy Macklin is a great sailing book belied by its humble title. Extraordinarily self-effacing, Paddy makes light of a remarkable circumnavigation executed in truly Corinthian spirit,…

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    OSTAR 2017: David Southwood recounts an exceptionally brutal Atlantic storm

    • June 4, 2020

    Competitors in the 2017 Original Single-handed Transatlantic Race (OSTAR) experienced the worst conditions since the race was initiated in 1960 in the era of Blondie Hasler and Francis Chichester. This…

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    Sailing to Jan Mayen: An extract from So Far, So Good by Paddy Barry

    • May 26, 2020

    I first met Paddy Barry in the late 80s at a Breton traditional boat festival. I was on a raft of unrestored pilot cutters. Paddy’s and his friends’ Galway Hookers…

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    Sailing England’s East Coast: Extract from On and Offhore by Dick Durham

    • May 19, 2020

    Dick Durham knows the East Coast of England better than most. He has sailed it, both deep water and shoal, since putting to sea in the 1960s as mate aboard…

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    North East Passage ice rescue: Extract from Northabout by Jarlath Cunnane

    • May 12, 2020

    Jarlath Cunnane’s book Northabout is a must for anyone dreaming of ice navigation or who is fascinated by the history of the extraordinary people who have voyaged to the high…

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    Buster De Guingand on racing classic yacht Thalassa: An extract from The Yachtsman magazine

    • May 5, 2020

    The name of E P De Guingand will be well known to crews on the RORC circuit. The race for the trophy known as the De Guingand Bowl is run…

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    Family sailing to Hawaii in a 34ft classic boat: Vixen’s great Pacific voyage

    • April 30, 2020

    In September 2004, Bruce Halabisky and Tiffany Loney sailed from Victoria BC bound for Hilo, Hawaii, in their 1952 Atkin-designed 34ft gaff cutter Vixen. Eleven years later they have two…

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    1998 Sydney Hobart: Extract from The Proving Ground by G Bruce Knecht

    • April 20, 2020

    Along with the 1979 Fastnet Race, the 1998 Sydney Hobart has become a byword for disaster at sea. Unless a writer was actually on board one of the boats and…

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