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Monday, December 17th, 2012. Kayak de mar con Gordon Brown. 18 Dec 2012 | 01:58 am
A wee bit late, but I finally completed the translation into Spanish of the free transcript of the 2nd DVD Sea Kayak with Gordon Brown. The translations cover in two separate files, the coaching sessi...
Thursday, December 13th, 2013. Zou bisou bisou. 14 Dec 2012 | 05:25 am
Gillian Hills was born in Cairo, Egypt. Her father was the author and adventurer Denis Hills and her mother was Dunia Lesmianowna, daughter of Polish poet Bolesław Leśmian. In a French feat of perver...
Wednesday, December 5th, 2012. New Sea Kayak Navigation Aid. 5 Dec 2012 | 05:52 pm
Howard Jeffs has designed a new navigation aid for small crafts that offers the functions of a Breton Plotter, the well known Silva Expedition 4 base-plate compass, and a pair of dividers. The SKNA i...
Monday, December 3rd, 2012. GoPros everywhere. 4 Dec 2012 | 02:19 am
Since GoPro cameras are already as ubiquitous as Kleenex, will there be an end to people looking intently into their kayak bows to check whether it’s on or not at the start of every GoPro video? Perha...
Friday, November 2nd, 2012. Liturgical vestments. 2 Nov 2012 | 06:40 am
From a Daily Telegraph comment: “I think the Pope would make an excellent Bond villain. He has the costume, the car, the lair, everything.” MercianMischief I endorse the Supreme Pontiff as pride sw...
Monday, October 29th, 2012. The rescue of the crew of Hms Bounty. 30 Oct 2012 | 06:02 am
A distress call at 1830 on Sunday evening, October 28th, informed that power was lost and the pumps had failed to bilge water fast enough to keep the ship afloat. A few hours later, the tall ship lost...
Thursday, February 2nd, 2012. Then burst his mighty heart. 3 Feb 2012 | 03:24 pm
We cannot all be masters, nor all masters Cannot be truly follow’d. In following him, I follow but myself; Heaven is my judge, not I for love and duty, But seeming so, for my peculiar end: Fo...
Saturday, December 31st, 2011. Cape Horn. 1 Jan 2012 | 11:47 am
My best wishes for the New Year go for Freya Hoffmeister. After an emergency landing among boulders and breaking waves in a forlorn inlet last Tuesday, she has managed to make fortune repairs with a f...
Wednesday, December 21st. 2011. Elegance is refusal. 22 Dec 2011 | 04:52 pm
This melanistic king penguin observed by Dr. Allan Baker, in Fortuna Bay on the subantarctic island of South Georgia, proves that a male if committed to leisure, may with tolerable economy make an imp...
Sunday, December 4th, 2011. Rough water handling. 5 Dec 2011 | 12:38 pm
On March 1st, 2012, Pesda Press will made publicly available Rough Water Handling, a practical guide written by Doug Cooper on the skills to manoeuvre a sea kayak in rough water and advanced condition...
