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Messing about on the River Medway
It was at Foys, the restaurant at the Flying Squadron, where us Middle Harbour Yacht Club Cruisers had our annual Long Lunch, where I read a little bit of history about the club on one of the plaques on the wall. Strange that it couldn’t be had at our own club.It seems Mark Foy, founder…
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Alexandra Comino – Marine Biologist working to save the Agnasi oyster from extinction
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-03-04/ceramic-shells-reviving-threatened-oysters-in-kangaroo-island/102049220 My daughter Alexandra is a marine biologist currently working on a project on Kangaroo island to save the local native kangaroo island oyster the Agnasi oyster from extinction. This is her on the front page, of the current edition of the National maritime museum’s magazine “signals” She, as the team’s marine biologist, has led…
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Captain Voss, the “Tilikum” and his Voyages
On a Tour (mid May to mid June) of Western Canada and Alaska, in a few free hours, we visited the Maritime Museum of British Columbia in the city of Victoria, on the southern tip of Vancouver Island. Victoria is the Capital of British Columbia not Vancouver. Whilst the exhibits were interesting, with information on…
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Macquarie Lighthouse
by Jeremy Clark, S/V Kai Rani Primitive open fire signals apparently sufficed the early Sydney settlement for its first 26 years . In November 1814, however, the energetic Governor Lachlan Macquarie * requested the services of architect Frances Greenaway (convict). Greenaway suggested that a revolving light should be erected. At either south or North Head…
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Plimsoll Mark
by Jeremy Clark, S/V Kai Rani The Plimsoll Mark is painted on the side of British Merchant Ships to indicate the draught levels to which a ship may be loaded under various conditions The Plimsoll Mark shows six loading levels, those for: This mark is accompanied by another consisting of a circle bisected by a…
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2023 Hobart Wooden Boat Festival
It has been great living on Sanctum in the wooden boat capital of Australia for the last 10 months. Living on board in Cygnet and surrounds we are among so many wooden boats both loved and unloved. Tasmania really is the land of love for wooden boats. There are still new vessels being built, old…
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Costa Concordia – the story of the grounding and salvage operation
Zoom presentation by Noel Phelan to the Cruising Division on the 16th August 2021
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Some Memories over 74 years of “Sailing”, part 1
By Bill Humel. A few of my Memories Articles appeared in the Compass Rose in 2019 and in years before, so I will try to be brief on what has appeared previously. My first nautical experience was paddling an old mattress with a paling on North Curl Curl Lagoon just after World War 2. My…
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Middle Head Fortifications
By Simon Pratt. Middle Head. We sail past its cliffs and rock shelves all the time. And try not to hit it while cutting the corner south. What a view it has, looking straight through the Heads, north to Manly, south down to Rose Bay, and if you lean out over the cliff, you can…
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The forgotten navigator, Luis Torres
By Simon Pratt. In primary school, I was taught that ‘Captain Cook discovered Australia’. Even if you ignore the aborigines (who walked here), that is unfortunately quite wrong. By the time Cook’s Endeavour sighted Point Hicks in 1770, the Dutch and Spanish had already discovered and mapped the great majority of the Australian coastline.What Cook…
