Kendall Carter I am very old! Back when I was a midshipman at the Britannia Royal Naval College in Dartmouth, Devon in the UK, we had to learn how to drive boats. We learned all the basic techniques for handling power boats, as are admirably shown now in the Australian Boating Manual Chapters 8 and 24 and had to get our “tickets” on various types of power boats. One of these was the 32 ft cutter. These wooden clinker built ships’ boats were fitted to the larger Royal Navy (an

Professor Hugh Grantham It is well known that the old school sailors in the wooden ships feared fire at sea above all else! Burns are a...

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Professor Hugh Grantham Professor Hugh Grantham ’s blog post on Seasickness has sparked lively discussions and thoughtful comments in...