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 and sea kayaks as a desalination system that doesn’t need power to drive [...]
by Margaret B Dickinson.
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John Masefield’s “Sea Fever” did it for me, and more so the “Onedin Line” with all that adventure and romance and billowing sails, Aptly, this BBC TV drama series was created by a Liverpudlian, Cyril Abraham, [...]
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 lids’. Our boat was new, and we thought it was well-equipped.
During one windy Cowes week [...]
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.
If it's Croatia you're after, see the Yacht Charter Croatia page.
Did he yell at you? Some people change character completely when they're in charge of a boat. Why not forearm yourself with Jim Murrant's Boating Bible Manual of Seamanship? Jim is an old sea-dog who, in sixty years, has seen and done more than most boat owners - and he never yells at you.
If you're here, you're interested in sailing. I need more Twitter followers like you and your friends, not thousands of landlubbers. I'm 'chabrenas' on Twitter - follow me and I'll probably follow you.
Does it surprise you that many of the Vendée Globe skippers come from this part of the world?...
