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    Leader dismasted off Portland

    Training yacht loses mast in gale off Portland

    • September 6, 2011

    Disabled 100-footer drifts into Race with 11 young people on board

    Tip of the Day

    Heading out today?

    • September 6, 2011

    head to the bookshop...

    Walliams swims Thames

    Latest hazard to Thames navigation

    • September 6, 2011

    David Walliams swimming river for Sport Relief

    Chandlers book SIBS

    ‘Hostage’ on sale now!

    • September 2, 2011

    Chandler's book-signing at Southampton

    Royal Marines - Sarie Marais - stern damage

    Can you lend a yacht to the Marines?

    • September 1, 2011

    Troops therapeutic training vessel out of action after hit-and-run

    Irene & Katia

    Irene heads north with second storm on her tail

    • August 31, 2011

    Dozens of dead across North America

    Tip of the Day

    Sling your hook without the stress

    • August 30, 2011

    The first thing to remember

    Timothy Spall on RNLI lifeboat

    Lifeboat retrieves Timothy Spall

    • August 26, 2011

    RNLI assists lost actor

    NCI Torbay opening

    New Coastwatch station

    • August 25, 2011

    Purpose-built watchtower unveiled in Torbay

    Abramovitch yacht Eclipse

    No room for Roman

    • August 24, 2011

    Oligarch's megayacht ousted from Antibes marina

    Tip of the Day

    Glassing things in

    • August 24, 2011

    ...the neater way!

    Somali pirates

    Pirates get life sentences

    • August 23, 2011

    Two 'Quest' killers convicted, more to come

    Hurricane Irene

    Hurricane grows through Caribbean

    • August 22, 2011

    Irene destroys Necker and threatens Florida

    Tip of the Day

    Oiling Wood: A Tip

    • August 22, 2011

    You don't need much!

    Niklas Zennstrom's Ran

    Rán takes the Fastnet as capsized Rambler sits it out

    • August 20, 2011

    Prizes in Plymouth but postmortem for the Maxi

    Hugh's Big Fish Fight Channel 4

    Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall rescued by lifeboat

    • August 18, 2011

    TV chef and son ran aground fishing

    Up the Limpopo

    Dave Selby podcast ‘Mad About the Boat’

    • August 18, 2011

    September 2011: Three Rivers of no return

    PBO Sept11 Falmouth harbour guide

    Harbours on film – September 2011

    • August 18, 2011

    Guides to UK harbours

    Tip of the Day

    Rainy downwind sailing

    • August 18, 2011

    Keep the cabin dry...

    Inseyandra dismasted - RNLI

    Another Fastnet dismasting

    • August 17, 2011

    RNLI video captures retrieval

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