Recent content by samsonioni

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Excellent voyage. How about writing it up for the Marine Quarterly? My own voyage, the considerably less dramatic Worst Journey in the Midlands, about which I wrote a book (still available on kindle, since you ask, and according to the intrepid McKinnon a source for his Jack de Crow) was a...

from the next Marine Quarterly: I bumped into Oleg last week. You have probably read about Oleg. Took over most of the Russian cement industry in 1991 using high order commercial skills and a tank regiment. He was sitting behind a beaker of his usual vodka and gold dust, looking glum. 'Well...

Almost certainly nightmare material by sea. Scrutiny of the inland waterways map UK Canal Map | The Inland Waterways Association, however, shows that in only about a year you could fiddle your way to within thirty miles of the Broads, at which point a truck could take over. It is better to...

Try Plastazote. Fireproof, bendable, closed cell, not expensive. Worked brilliantly for me.

Another great man gone. He ended his days in Andorra, where he said the mountains reminded him of big seas. There's a long and excellent interview with him in the Spring 2017 issue of the Marine Quarterly, www.marinequarterly.com. No idea if it is legal to point this out, as I am the MQ's editor.

This is the only yachting magazine I have yet read that gets serious about the use of the Swiss Army Knife, see my transcription of a forum thread in the latest issue (or so I hear). It deserves the support of all right thinking boat owning non varnish worshipping people. Bless its heart, and...

Thank you. It would indeed be useful to have the dimensions, if you had a moment.

A disastrous intervention of Fate (don't ask) has removed my Mk 2 Corribee's forehatch and plunged it into the deeps of the sea. Anybody got one that would like a good home?

Tim and Snooks Excellent to read both your views. Tim, the postman will drop the first issue on your doormat early next week; I look forward to your verdict. Snooks, that is very decent of you. I greatly hope that when you do eventually see the MQ you will like it in spite of the sea of print...

An editor writes I don't know if it's legitimate in web world to defend my new journal online, but here goes anyway. The Marine Quarterly publishes articles about the sea. They deal with fisheries, conservation, shipping, sailing, adventure, wildlife, oceanography, the future of the Navy and...

...on the other hand, halyard spinlocks do not half come in handy, and a winch is always a nice thing to have, particularly if you are seeking the ubertight luff while racing, as many Shrimper owners do. A winch is also a comfort given the highish average age of Shrimper owners. So I too am...

Re: Gurney\'s Revenge If it is any excuse, Gurney's Revenge is the first book I ever wrote, being in my early twenties at the time; sort of teach-yourself-fiction-writing-by-writing. I still think it is pretty ripping, but would be the first to admit that it is by no means skilful.