This weekend – the Beale Park Boat Show

Beale Park Boat Show Salmon boat Currach 3 enlarged

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Previous years at the Beale Park Boat Show

The Beale Park Boat Show held each year on the Thames near Pangbourne is a treat – a great opportunity to see some beautiful craftsman-built boats and try them out, and also to meet their builders and the people who provide designs, plywood, timber, glue, chandlery and the rest. The show starts today, and lasts all weekend.

You can bet I’ll be there, and in fact we’re planning to arrive on Sunday – let’s hope for great weather for photographs.

For information on a great day out follow this link: www.bealepark.co.uk

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Cooke tackles heavy weather

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Captain Voss’s famous drogue

Chapter VII: ‘Should you find yourself far from a port on the advance of bad weather, my advice is to get away from the land as fast as you can.’

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Chapter VIII: ‘Should the wind be abaft of the beam the helm should be put up for a dangerous sea so that it is taken end-on.’ Continue reading “Cooke tackles heavy weather”

Getting under way, and Seamanship under way

Chapter IV: ‘We will now consider the best means of getting our craft under way under various conditions’

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