Coastwatch News – April 2014 – Malcolm Craven
When I first started writing these articles, Mark at Roseland Online raised the question of copyright of the pictures I use in each edition. Many of these are mine but I get...
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Coastwatch News – March 2014 – Malcolm Craven
‘t’ain’t No Good Fighting The Tide, My Son I bought our first boat in 1968 and, apart from short periods, have had one ever since. When I started we had no money...
Coastwatch News – February 2014 – Malcolm Craven
Our Position is 50’11.10n by 5’35.80w I write this on the anniversary of the disaster in 1981 of the Penlee Lifeboat ‘Solomon Browne’. Sixteen people died in the attempted rescue of the...
Coastwatch – January 2014 – Malcolm Craven
Ugh… That Mud Tastes Horrible! I have written before about the difference between then and now and the skills used by the ‘old timers’ which have long since disappeared. Who now, for...
Coatswatch News – December 2013 – Malcolm Craven
What is a ‘Bunting Tosser’? Walking round our Lookout the other day I fell to pondering about the huge blocks of concrete and granite which lie just outside our walls. Obviously they...
Coastwatch News – November 2013 – Malcolm Craven
FOG – the sailors nightmare. It is eerie, confusing and frightening at sea. I have been on my boat in fog off the Irish coast and heard church bells ringing. I was...
Coastwatch News – October 2013 – Malcolm Craven
You Name It, We ‘ll Try And Do It It’s beginning to appear that one of our ‘general duties’ is to act as a contact point to help with happenings on the...
Coastwatch News – September 2013 – Malcolm Craven
A very quiet day in the Lookout. A Thursday and a few on the beach and in the water but nothing to see in front save waves and part blue sky. A...
Coastwatch News – August 2013 – Malcolm Craven
When is a Spade Not a Spade? It’s proving a busy season so far. It almost seems as if we have been having some sort of incident every week. We have had...
CoastWatch News – July 2013 – Malcolm Craven
Electronics Are Fine But You Need Eyes In this electronic age much of the danger which plagued the lives of sailors of old has been eliminated. Radar is there to give navigators...