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• Latvia worried by Russian plan to buy French warship

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 731
  Riga, Dec 10 (RIA Novosti) Latvia is concerned over Russia’s plans to buy a French warship, the Baltic country’s defence ministry said.“Senior defence ministry officials have already warned that if Russia buys the vessel and deploys it in the Baltic Sea, Latvia may have to review its current defence strategy in ...
  18 hours ago

• Carp threat hurts steel barging

  
  Breakbulk Industry News — Authority: 134
  Efforts by Michigan Gov. Jennifer Granholm to close the Grand Calumet River in Illinois have come under fire from the tugboat, towboat and barge industry. Closing the Chicago shipping channel and any locks would negatively impact barge movement, according to a spokeswoman for the American Waterways Operators. The ...
  5 days ago

• That 28,000 tons of coal you ordered? It’s here.

  
  Oldster's View — Authority: 130
  A futures trader has become “famous” for buying what he thought was futures for 28,000 tons of coal. Oops! Turns out he didn’t buy futures on the coal. What he bought was 28,000 tons of coal which was obligingly delivered to his office on Pier 53.  Details at the link. Link
  6 days ago

• Loch Striven ship layups: rolling story

  
  For Argyll — Authority: 487
  Update 08.00 3rd December: An issue which looks as if it may be on the horizon is the UK Government selling off more of the remaining Trust Ports. The national debt already at unprecedented - unimagined - levels. The shadow of a potential Dubai collapse (the  now state-owned RBS was, of course, a major lender) [...]
  1 week ago

• Sign this petition – stop the Government selling off our inland waterways

  
  intheboatshed.net intheboatshed.net — Authority: 466
  The Oxford Canal at Hillmorton on the eastern edge of Rugby in Warwickshire - image from the Wikipedia, photographed by G-Man Ordinary people in the UK are already prevented from using the large majority of our rivers, streams and lakes. And now there’s apparently a threat of the canal system being sold to ...
  1 week ago

• Spectacular photos of working boats and houseboats in Hong Kong’s harbours

  
  intheboatshed.net intheboatshed.net — Authority: 466
  Boats of Hong Kong – click on the images for a larger photo Hong Kong resident and photography enthusiast Matthew Atkin has kindly sent me this collection of his stunning shots – I guess the fact that he’s also my brother had something to do with it! I’ve never been to the Far East (though will have ...
  1 week ago

• Holmes of the Humber: a review

  
  intheboatshed.net intheboatshed.net — Authority: 466
  Eel, drawn by her skipper and designer, George Holmes Now that my copy has arrived, Tony Watts’ book Holmes of the Humber seems bigger than I’d expected. This is seriously good news, for although it isn’t quite coffee-table book sized, it’s nevertheless big enough to do justice to old George Holmes’ ...
  2 weeks ago

• Dylan Winter’s Keep Turning Left

  
  intheboatshed.net intheboatshed.net — Authority: 466
  Forgive me, for I have sinned – I have quietly been enjoying Dylan Winter’s video series Keep Turning Left and have failed to mention it for far too long. If you haven’t seen his Youtube videos about slowly sailing around our coast in an anti-clockwise direction, you should – and soon. He’s up to ...
  3 weeks ago

• Deaths Intrusion

  
  Authspot — Authority: 561
  Death comes unannounced and unplanned for it barges past you and invites itself through the door It finds who it is looking for and takes them with calculated forethought It leaves you behind and your nerves wrought Tired from all the gusto with which you fought a deadly silence leaves you alone with your thoughts
  3 weeks ago

• Loch Striven ship dump: rolling story

  
  For Argyll — Authority: 487
  Update 18.00 12th November: Maersk Maryland and Maersk Maine are now both in port in Algeciras in the south of Spain. Both are showing Greenock as their next destination, with an ETA of midday on 16th November for Maine and 6.00pm on the same day for Maryland. This supports the information given by Stew in [...]
  4 weeks ago

• The Struggle of Our Environmental Neighbors

  
  God's Politics Blog — Authority: 656
  Marvin Gaye once sang, “Oh, mercy mercy me/Oh, things ain’t what they used to be/No, no/Where did all the blue sky go?/Poison is the wind that blows/From the north, east, south, and sea/Oh, mercy mercy me…” This song came to…
  4 weeks ago

• Holmes of the Humber – a new book just in time for Christmas 2009

  
  intheboatshed.net intheboatshed.net — Authority: 466
  Holmes of the Humber – a new book about George Holmes Dick Wynne of the Albert Strange Association has been in touch to say that a new book on artist, writer, sailor and boat designer George Holmes written by Tony Watts is about to burst onto the scene on the 1st December. That’s good timing I’d say ...
  5 weeks ago

• Traditional steel Dutch dinghy and Forest & Stream skiff compared

  
  intheboatshed.net intheboatshed.net — Authority: 466
  Dutch dinghy and steel-built Forest & Stream skiff Over in Holland , Hans-Christian has taken these photos of a traditional steel-built Dutch dinghy of a type often used as tenders to steel-built barges and other craft. They’re strikingly curvaceous little boats, given that they’re made from plates of ...
  6 weeks ago

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