Category: Messing around on the water
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This “Sailing versus golf” piece is a medley assembled and blended by our guest editor Terry Birles from different authors who’ve written on the subject with an obvious bias towards sailing…. Many of history’s most legendary figures were sailors, starting with Jonah (you know, the poor fellow who got swallowed by that whale) and spanning…
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If the Bahamas didn’t already exist, who would have the chutzpah to dream it into existence? Astonishing sand beaches, crystal clear waters & Rum cocktails! Definitely an island chain that looks like it was designed to be explored from the deck of a boat. The Bahamas, as everyone knows, is one of the world’s great…
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So we can assume, possibly due to midlife crisis or being on the run, that you’ve applied to be a guest crew on board a Tall Ship. You will step aboard and be shown to your cabin. This move alone will instil a sense of mistrust and resentment throughout the crew who sleep in the…
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It is a little-known fact that the jetski, like the tractor and the iron lung, was invented by Stalin – though on closer inspection the roots of these machines in a Communist dictatorship are easily discernible. Jetniks, as their riders were originally called, claimed that access to the seas was free to all, and that…