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‘Robinetta’ approaches Ushant in fog

May 31, 2020 beverley yates France, Hazards & Challenges, Sailing for Pleasure

We bring another tale from the log of ‘Robinetta’, during her summer cruise, 31 May, 2018. She’s approaching Ushant in fog and,[…]

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‘Papillon’ returns to Dunkirk: 2015

May 21, 2020 beverley yates English East Coast, France, Hazards & Challenges, Historic Events

After a brief introduction to the ‘Dunkirk Little Ships’ Keith Mosley shares his experiences of the 2015 Return to Dunkirk[…]

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‘Letitia’ returns to Dunkirk: 2000

May 20, 2020 beverley yates English East Coast, France, Hazards & Challenges, Historic Events, Working Sail

30′ Leigh-on-Sea cockle boat, ‘Letitia’ fishing no. LO220, later MN19, was built 1938 and retired from fishing in 1996. Like[…]

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Return to Dunkirk: 1965

May 13, 2020 beverley yates English East Coast, France, Hazards & Challenges, Historic Events

As a consequence of the coronavirus pandemic the Association of Dunkirk Little Ships (ADLS) decided to postpone the Return to[…]

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Brest and Douarnenez, 1996

May 10, 2020 beverley yates France, France 2015 & 2016, Sailing for Pleasure, South West England

The Brest and Douarnenez Festivals take place every four years. In 2020, the Festival is postponed due to the worldwide[…]

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Cruising to Brest: 2016

April 29, 2020 beverley yates France, France 2015 & 2016, Sailing for Pleasure, Solent & English South Coast

In 2016, a fleet of OGA members sailed in company from the East Coast, Netherlands and Solent to the Festival[…]

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Rescuing 3,000 from Dunkirk beaches: 1940

March 28, 2020 beverley yates English East Coast, France, Hazards & Challenges

This extract tells the tale of one of the Dunkirk ‘Little Ships’; Ramsgate lifeboat ‘The Prudential’, now renamed ‘Trimilia’. As[…]

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Crossing to France: via Dover or Brighton?

September 30, 2019 beverley yates France, France 2015 & 2016, Solent & English South Coast, Working Sail

Since the age of the train, we’ve crossed the Channel from Dover to Calais by steamship, ferry, hovercraft and, since[…]

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The rocky coast of Finistère: lighthouses, lifeboats and seaweed

April 25, 2019 beverley yates France, France 2015 & 2016, Hazards & Challenges

Île Vierge marks the south-western limit of the English Channel and is a small islet off the approach to l’Aber[…]

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Blessing the St Malo fishing fleet: 1932

April 24, 2019 beverley yates France, France 2015 & 2016, Working Sail

This archive footage from a Pathe Gazette, 1932 shows the Bishop blessing the fleet as they depart St Malo to[…]

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