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Guide to Winter Boat Maintenance

Friday, 14th of November 2014

The Winter months can be a rocky time for dedicated sailors. A chance to rediscover the warmth of the indoors, see some familiar landlubbers and enjoy the Christmas holidays, sure, but that's just the beginning of a long wait until Spring. Worse, during that

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Round-up of the Latest Admiralty Charts

Wednesday, 12th of November 2014

Having been a first port of call for professional seafarers and sailing enthusiasts for nearly 25 years, Seachest has always made sure its stock of nautical charts (both Admiralty and Imray) has remained constantly up to date and resotcked. Our online store

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What Makes The World's Roughest Seas So Dangerous?

Tuesday, 4th of November 2014

Quite a few months ago now, we created a list of just a few of the World's Roughest Seas and detailed a little bit of what makes them so treacherous. Turbulent, or perhaps even violent oceans have been a hindrance to sailors throughout history; making some

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5 Unexplained Ghost Ship Stories

Thursday, 30th of October 2014

In one of our previous blog posts this year, we laid out 5 of the most Amazing mysteries of the high seas, however in theses tall tales of the ocean there was one monster we simply had to revisit. Whilst haunted houses have a pretty strong hold on the spectral

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Watching the Weather While Boating

Tuesday, 28th of October 2014

"It was like just before the Sun goes to bed down on the bayou...There was over a million sparkles on the water" - Forrest GumpMuch as we wish we could write an entire blog on the many breathtaking sights of natural beauty to be found on the water (like in

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Guide to Famous Galleons

Wednesday, 22nd of October 2014

When it comes to passenger boat design, the features serving perfunctory purpose of a vessel is hardly its most notable aspect. Whilst heavy cargo isn't so concerned with its surrounding appearances, vessels designed to ship people across the oceans put appearances

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