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Category Archives: GENERAL
Sailing As a Spectator Sport – the effect of sponsorship
The Sydney Hobart Race – sorry, the Rolex Sydney Hobart Race – starts in just over a week. My friend Jim Murrant, author of the Boating Bible Manual of Seamanship and a man who used to compete in the race … Continue reading
Posted in EVENTS, GENERAL, MONEY
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Cold Water Boot Camp
In about 1970 I read about a study by the Royal Navy (without ever seeing the original, so I may have been misinformed) which concluded that people who fell overboard in the English Channel died of hypothermia, not drowning. It … Continue reading
Posted in EQUIPMENT, GENERAL, SEAMANSHIP
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Brittany Storm – Raz de Sein in December 2007
As a child, I used to travel to and from east Africa via the Bay of Biscay and Capes Finisterre (Spain) and Finistère (Brittany), so I know the sea often gets rough around that part of the world. Like Cornwall, … Continue reading
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Can too much adventure really harm teenage psychological development?
A year ago, Dutch courts put Laura Dekker under the control of child care services while they assessed her physical and mental fitness for the risks involved in her proposed multi-stage 2-year singlehanded voyage around the world. I think they … Continue reading
Teamsurv – community-sourcing comes to the boating world
New technologies often lead to developments that weren’t foreseen in their early days. One that is becoming more and more common with the growth of the Internet and mobile phone networks is ‘community-sourcing’, where groups with a common interest pool … Continue reading