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The Sailor’s Hornpipe

Our pal Rosie Davis steps the Sailor’s Hornpipe in a live recording of the lunchtime session at the Frittenden Old Fashioned Night Out weekend, 2012. If you listen carefully, you can hear the pub crowd asking her to demonstrate various … Continue reading

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Sailing By played on the two-row melodeon

Sailing By – the famous theme tune of the BBC Radio Shipping Forecast for British waters, shoe-horned onto the two-row melodeon. It represents another triumph, I think, for the ingenious inventor of this intriguing Rubik’s cube of an instrument!

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John Krause’s Julie skiff fitted with an electric outboard

This is John Krause on a fishing outing in his recently built Julie skiff made from ply and epoxy. He adapted the 15ft-something rowing skiff’s transom slightly for use with an electric outboard, but it still looks pretty well, don’t you … Continue reading

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