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...There’s plenty to occupy yourself with on the island – boats with skippers, swims and snorkels, ancient digs, dinner to a soundtrack of whispering wavelets at Beach House, and more. boutique-homes.com, from...
...Skipper Hughes sold his “Mairead” in 2002, as the whitefish shoals thinned out, too many boats chasing too few fish....
...As I start exploring, relishing the 25C heat and gentle waves of the reef-protected sea, I have as my guide The Island of Rodriguez published by John Murray in 1923....
...That should sound bizarre, and if you’re like me your first question is, there are professional stone skippers? But give it a whirl, it is amazing!...
...John Francis Flynn UK tour...
...In 1969, the American writer John McPhee spent a year living on Colonsay....
...They are guided by Dwayne Johnson’s salty sea-dog skipper Frank....
...But neither, ironically, are the skippers of Goldman Sachs....
...Waterstones had become monotonous under HMV, says Kate Skipper, now the chain’s chief operating officer....
...I remember watching an England game on TV in a London pub in the early 1990s: whenever England’s John Barnes got the ball, one man made monkey noises while his office mates tittered....
...(The ultimate must-have accessory: a Kiwi friend who’s a skipper – New Zealand being the grail of scrappy, world-beating prowess to which all legit Newport sailors aspire.)...
...Meadowlark Media, the content house launched by former DAZN and ESPN executive John Skipper, has hired Laura Albero as its chief financial officer and Bimal Kapadia as chief operating officer....
...The pontoon boat passes us, and the skipper raises his fist in a salute and cries, “YAAAAAAAAH!” into the wind. He is acknowledging us....
...As we headed up the Irish Sea to Greenock, still with no autohelm, my lasting memory was Brian pointing the forestay at the north star reciting the John Masefield poem Sea Fever: “All I ask is a tall ship...
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...So would John Brown, a Campbeltown skipper, who said fishing had got “worse and worse and worse” in his four decades afloat....
...Jaws are snapping shut on HSBC boss John Flint. The biteback comes from a ratio rather than the shark that bisected fictional skipper Quint....
...Leitch is 66 and had been planning to retire when Szkiler, 61, asked him to skipper the castle’s first boat, a smaller version of this one....
...John Skipper, DAZN’s executive chairman said also acquiring the rights to Alvarez’s next 11 fights was “a truly transformational moment for our business and the entire industry.”...
...Walt Disney has tapped James Pitaro, head of the media group’s consumer products and interactive media division, to lead ESPN following the sudden departure of John Skipper last year over substance abuse...
...John Skipper, who was also co-chairman of Disney Media Networks, said in a statement that he had “struggled for many years” with addiction....
...John Skipper has resigned as president of ESPN, Walt Disney’s cable sports network, citing a substance addiction problem....
...The company this week hired John Skipper, ESPN’s former president, as executive chairman. Mr Skipper stepped down from ESPN at the end of last year after revealing a problem with substance abuse....
...After a growl from the skipper and some hasty repositioning, I’m back where I should be, tucked in his wake....
...“Personally, I voted to leave but even I’ve had some wobbles,” said John Hawken, who was cleaning and stacking crates at Newlyn’s fish market....
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