My son and I dropped by a little before sunset. As well as the boats we found half a dozen largely solitary photographers with the same idea…
Traditional beach boats at Dungeness, November 2017
Category: Working boats
Marine Quarterly, autumn 2017
I’m currently ploughing through a 764-page text book on English folk song, but when I’m done there’s a treat in store: the autumn 2017 edition of the Maritime Quarterly.
We’ll all have our favourites, but items that catch my eye in this issue include:
- Uffa Fox sailing the Atlantic, singing as he goes (I’ve got a CD of his sea songs, so I know how that goes)
Max Liberson reflects that his first efforts at anchoring were made very easy by mud of the Thames Estuary (surely not that easy – there are anchor-robbing chains and who knows what down there)
Tom Cunliffe takes a relaxed look at Lecky’s classic instruction book ‘Wrinkles’
Illustrator, artist and boat dweller Claudia Myatt goes cruising
John Rousmaniere takes part in the intense conversation of the New York Yacht Club Book Group
Abandoned lifeboat on the Fleet, Dorset
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Portland boat builder and repairer, freelance writer and environmentalist Ian Baird (contact him here or here) has been finding out about this long wrecked lifeboat on the Fleet near Pirate’s Cove.
Which ship was it from? Did it save lives in doing so? How did it end here? Did it ever have a name of its own?
If anyone would like to chip in with information, please use the Comments link below!