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Sir Francis Beaufort and the Beaufort Scale
One summer’s evening in the days before internet weather forecasting, I was deeply involved in the after-race ‘do’ following a Solent Old Gaffers event. In the 1970s these regattas drew entrants large
THE PICK OF THIS WEEK’S RADIO
Icy blasts from the north have inspired French artists, writers and scientists
Celebrating 100 years of the BBC Shipping Forecast, Jane Russell takes us on a series of coastal cruises through the forecast sea areas, exploring some of the special places on offer in each of them
↑ During the Darwin200 Global Voyage, Dutch tall ship the Oosterschelde sailed to Chile’s Brüggen Glacier, a vast river of ice in the Patagonian wilderness and one of South America’s largest glaciers.
The art of juggling tea and a muffin while not tripping over or getting whacked on the head
