Harbour Exchange and BestBoatNe.ws are now both available on the brand new ‘HarbourX’ iPhone Application. This means you can get all articles published on HarbourExchange.com and all the best news we pick daily and publish at BestBoatNe.ws directly to your iPhone or iPod Touch. You can stay up to date on the best sailing news and blog articles whenever you are on the move, or are aboard the boat.
The application also currently provides all Harbour Exchange Twitter ‘Tweets’ and more great boating information will be added over time.
The get the new application, just click on the button and you can download it for free. Happy reading.
Every year in the UK more than 8,000 rescues are made by the RNLI, with more than 50% of these being responses to leisure sailors like us. While many of these are real accidents that no-one could have forseen, a great proportion are rescues or incidents that could have been avoided by better preparation [...]
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The freeze is thankfully over in the UK (at least where I live). After 1 month of snow, ice and chaos, normality has returned to the roads. During this big freeze our house lost power twice and we spent days and nights frrrreeezing. I suspect we’d have been warmer on board a boat with just [...]
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If you’re a regular reader of Harbour Exchange, you already know I’m an apple addict and my iPhone is like a member of the family. I love playing with new applications, especially if they involve all things nautical.
The iPhone stats are impressive:
133,979 applications for download in the App Store
28,000 App Developers
iPhone users download an average [...]
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We have just added the coolest feature possible to Harbour Exchange. Now there is a ‘Photo Wall’ and a ‘Video Wall’. These are just too cool for school because they use something called Cooliris and if you’ve never used it before you’ll soon be addicted to flying down your 3D wall to find new content. [...]
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A great photo of a Frigate docked in Portsmouth just before Christmas.
HMS Iron Duke, returned home to Portsmouth following a six-month deployment to the Caribbean during which she made a record-breaking drugs seizure. The Type 23 frigate discovered 5.5 tonnes of pure cocaine with an estimated UK value of £240m in a converted fishing vessel [...]
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A hitch is any knot tied to a fixed object, and the clove hitch is very useful for all sorts of uses on board a boat. I would typically use everyday for tying the fenders to the guard-wire/rail.
It’s a very versatile knot with a number of different variations. Here are a couple of videos [...]
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Here’s a great shot for you all at Christmas.
We will be eating, drinking and being merry over the next few weeks, so no more posts until 2010. See you all then and have a great holiday season.
A Turkish bulk carrier is seen half sunk near Sukhumi, capital of the breakaway Georgion region of Abkhazia. The [...]
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WIGHT VODKA – BEST SAILOR’S BAR CONTEST
In the spirit of Wight Vodka’s ethos, we should all ‘Celebrate our Wins’ as
we head into the holidays and New Year. With this as the main theme for the
inaugural Best Sailor’s Bar contest, we must first start by congratulating
all of the establishments that made the Top 10 list of [...]
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This is a really useful knot that we could all do with learning – the Quick Release Knot. When rigging up a slip for easy exiting from a berth you could try this one instead.
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