Learn about celestial navigation with the Spider T crew!

Astral navigation with Spider T's Mal Nicholson

 

Celestial navigation at Barton

If you’re in the area and would like to get your head around navigating by the moon and stars, this could be your chance – and it’s free. I love modern navigation equipment, but wouldn’t it be better to find your way using the old methods also?

Retired fisherman Ray Maltby talks about the decline of Boston fleet

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The British Library website’s material on accents and dialects of the UK is fascinating. Listen to Ray Maltby talking about the decline of the Boston fishing fleet.

British Sea-Fishermen, by Anson – part III, from Lincolnshire to Cornwall

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Hastings beach pictured by Cristall in 1808

‘Hastings is one of the most interesting fishing centres on the South Coast and if one studies early 19th century paintings and drawings one realises that
Hastings beach cannot have changed very much in the past hundred years.
Even the boats have retained their general lines…’

Anson British Sea-Fishermen Anson British Sea-Fishermen

Anson British Sea-Fishermen Anson British Sea-Fishermen Anson British Sea-Fishermen

Anson British Sea-Fishermen Anson British Sea-Fishermen Anson British Sea-Fishermen

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