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Monthly Archives: August 2008
Sea-Pack desalination kit
After investigating the reverse osmosis desalination system used on French sail training ship Belém, I followed a few trails and found a very interesting product based on normal (forward) osmosis – Manta Ventures’ Sea-Pack kit, designed for use in liferafts … Continue reading
Tall Ships in Liverpool – July 2008
by Margaret B Dickinson. Click on the photo below to see the full collection of Margaret’s superb photos on flickr.com John Masefield’s “Sea Fever” did it for me, and more so the “Onedin Line” with all that adventure and romance … Continue reading
Choosing winches
Quite a long time ago (in the days when self-tailing winches were a rare novelty) I spent a few seasons racing ‘around the cans’ and offshore with a group of friends who had ‘grown up’ from dinghies to ‘boats with … Continue reading
Petition UK government for a Military & Veterans Hospital
The UK government closed military hospitals, planning to use the alreday overstretched National Health Service to cater for wounded military personnel. Gosport Borough Council has launched a petition asking the Uk government to create dedicated Military and Veterans’ hospitals. UK citizens at home and abroad are entitled to sign the petition. Continue reading