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December 20, 2008
What happened next?
...Ouzo disappeared off the south coast of the Isle of Wight, writes Tom de Castella. The three friends sailing it – Rupert Saunders, Jason Downer and James Meaby – were found dead, floating...Pride of Bilbao, had narrowly missed an unidentified yacht in a part of the English Channel where the Ouzo had been... By FT Writers
September 22, 2009
Antigua: A brilliant base but with a few drawbacks
...recommend having crew trained and armed. The captain should be given the flexibility to commence firing as soon as he or she perceives a threat from an unidentified vessel, which approaches and refuses to turn back.” Not exactly a...Intelligence rather than gunfire is the preferred option of UK superyacht crew sailing in pirate-infested waters off Somalia... By Frances Howorth
March 24, 2008
Sailing for landlubbers
...bloodlessly, calm waters, hazards and all. As with this – the directions for a sailing vessel trying to make its way westbound, around...the coast of Africa, according to the season, at some point between Cap Lopez and Luanda ... a good vessel, sailing well, may make landfall S of the Congo River. Thereafter ... it seldom... By Simon Winchester
March 22, 2008
Sailing for landlubbers
...bloodlessly, calm waters, hazards and all. As with this - the directions for a sailing vessel trying to make its way westbound...the coast of Africa, according to the season, at some point between Cap Lopez and Luanda . . . a good vessel, sailing well, may make landfall S of the Congo River. Thereafter . . . it... By Simon Winchester
August 15, 2009
Modern marvels of the Med
...struck me as symbolic, too, that in the great square at Tripoli, in the shade of its splendid fortress, they were...traffic accidents – five macabrely wrecked automobiles that passers-by seemed...parts, but which were meant to induce the indigenous jeunesse dorée to drive more...cosmopolitanism in that Arab-African metropolis, and in the nearby harbour I recognised the...graceful white hull of the oldest naval vessel afloat in the world, the Egyptian presidential... By Jan Morris
August 22, 2009
Sailing the Solent after sundown
...grey sea. In the distance we can see the cruising lights of a large ship. Light asks me to judge how far away the vessel is. “Less than six miles, more than...suggest since we still cannot see some of the ship’s lights, which will become visible...good to learn here,” he adds. Night sailing in a crowded waterway, having to pick up the light sequences of buoys and lighthouses, can be confusing, but... By Richard Donkin
November 10, 2009
Somali pirates hijack arms vessel
...in northern Somalia. It had carried the name Al Mizan but that was not necessarily the ship's real name. "It seems as if she is sailing under a fake name," he said. The arms on board were mainly light weapons...they told us is it's light weapons and RPGs [rocket-propelled grenades...could not immediately confirm the arms vessel's seizure but, if it is confirmed... By Robert Wright, Transport Correspondent
August 23, 2008
Lost At Sea
...Portsmouth and had a near miss with an unidentified yacht to the south of the Isle of Wight. The prosecution said the yacht was the Ouzo and that it had been swamped by the P&O vessel. The defence argued it was a different...route south-west to Dartmouth, and sailing against the tide rather than with it. Jeremy...head of enforcement at the Maritime and Coastguard Agency, describes Thompson...of radar echoes as "spurious - a vessel the size of the Ouzo cannot be picked... By Tom de Castella
August 22, 2008
Lost at sea
...Portsmouth and had a near miss with an unidentified yacht to the south of the Isle of Wight. The prosecution said the yacht was the Ouzo and that it had been swamped by the P&O vessel. The defence argued it was a different...route south-west to Dartmouth, and sailing against the tide rather than with it. Jeremy...head of enforcement at the Maritime and Coastguard Agency, describes Thompson...radar echoes as “spurious – a vessel the size of the Ouzo cannot be picked... By Tom de Castella
May 2, 2009
Everything you need to know to start sailing
...still remember grainy black and white television pictures of the Gipsy rounding Cape Horn with...Chichester at the helm. For me, the sight of that tiny vessel, heeled against those giant waves, epitomised something in the human spirit that demands to...Moth is now owned by the UK Sailing Academy, based on the Isle of...We bought it for £1 and a gin and tonic. But it has... By Richard Donkin