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Leading irish solo o shore sailor Tom Dolan has extended his partnership with Dubarry, we are told, and we need no better excuse to feature a pair of the brand’s Palma sailing trainers, probably not what Tom wears o shore, but great for inshore summer racing. Unisex, lightweight, sporty, colourful, grippy. We like.

 £129  dubarry.com

Stroodles pasta straws

For everyone who wants to help clear the oceans of plastic, stopping using plastic straws has been part of the deal. But paper straws can mar your drinking experience. Welcome to pasta straws, made by British company Stroodles and fast becoming THE way to stir your cocktail, be it in a London club or yacht cockpit. Stroodles is also partnering with Clean Ocean Sailing to organise a competition to draw up a sail design for the former fi shing boat Annette. Your design should “reimagine a more sustainable future and an ocean free from plastic pollutants”. Enter via the Stroodles website.

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Another good’un from Zhik, who recognise that the importance of protecting your skin from harmful UV, even in cloudy conditions, is well understood in the southern hemisphere yet less so in the northern hemisphere. Their new UVActive range of shirts has fabric that is said to block out 99.5% of UVA and UVB even when the tops are wet, which far exceeds the exacting UPF 50+ rating. Available in long sleeve and short sleeve, using a fi ne gauge, soft interlock weave.

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The shirt that says it

We’ve all been there. Sometimes an apology is necessary.

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Heads whale

Made from 29 recycled PET bottles, Moby is very in tune with the times and is designed to keep your loo roll dry as he hangs in your heads compartment.

 £30  redcandy.co.uk

Wallpaper by a skipper

North Norfolk skipper Zoe Dunford has designed this nautical wallpaper to feature boats that she sails herself, from Wells-next-the-Sea. It also comes in white on a blue background. Her new wallpaper and fabrics business is called Collingwood Coastal, after a family connection to Admiral Lord Collingwood, who took over command of the British fleet when Nelson was shot during the Battle of Trafalgar.

˜ £59.50 for a 52cm x 10m roll ˜ collingwoodcoastal.com

Barton white Quickcleat

Requested by customers, this white version of Barton Marine’s popular Quick Cleat is said to hold lines up to 10mm and loads up to 70kg – and will blend in nicely on a white gelcoat hull. Quick Cleats are easy to use: rotate the lever on top, insert the line and release the lever to secure the rope. Great for boats, tenders, dock lines, for new crew members who can’t do a round turn and two half hitches – the list goes on.

˜ From £16.95 for a pair ˜ Bartonmarine.com

Rare nautical books

Endurance Logbook by Tom Cunliffe

Designed with our columnist Tom, who is also, among other things, a Fellow of the Royal Institute for Navigation, the Endurance is bound in tough royal blue English buckram, printed on heavyweight paper and lined with a hand-marbled design. It is section-sewn by hand to fold flat on your chart table. The left page is dedicated to navigation data, while the right page is feint-ruled for notes.

˜ £165 ˜ englishlogbook.co

Suncream for blokes

The Peter Harrington Rare Books 2021 Travel and Exploration catalogue, newly published, features plenty for yachting historians and lovers of sailing memorabilia, for example an unpublished set of journals kept by a Royal Navy midshipman during a tour of the Gulf in 1930-33, including an account of a visit to Dubai and an on-board reception for the Trucial Sheikhs, part of a broader British policy of ‘courting’ local rulers. Also available is a complete set of Cook’s accounts of his three voyages, nine volumnes dating from 1773-4.

˜ Trucial Sheiks £125,000 ˜ Cook £60,000. ˜ peterharrington.co.uk British brand LifeJacket Skin Protection has produced an ‘SPF skincare range specifically engineered for men’, recognising that apparently two men die of skin cancer for every one woman. Their products are used by many professional sportsmen who favour the lightweight and slimline sachets or pouches in which they come, as well the non-greasy and enduring nature. Lifejacket tell us that only half of UK men (51%) consider using skin protection when it’s sunny.

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A visit to the Pacific can provoke all sorts of joyous emotions but one of the more obscure yet persistent desires of newly arrived cruising sailors is the wish to get a tattoo

Traditionally you should the Mary Jones who once pottered have one swallow around bookshops in Surrey or ate tattoo for every 5,000 sandwiches on the Isle of Wight. sea miles under She has now been transformed your belt, an anchor into more of an Amazonian figure; tattoo signifying that powerful, capable and certain of you’ve crossed the Atlantic and her place on her boat, her place a compass rose to show that you in the world and, in the ocean. will always find your way home. And we’re not talking about

Gone are the times when the only a simple “Ooooooh, that’s a people with tattoos were sailors nice-looking Chinese symbol, and convicts and it’s far more did you say it means courage?” commonplace to mark the crossing type of pointing at a pinned-up of the equator by offering a tot gallery of tattoo choices. A typical of rum to King Neptune rather Marquesan tattoo artist will simply than getting a shellback turtle have you lie down and talk, tell emblazoned onto your skin. stories of how you got here, where

However, there is still one you’re sailing onto, about your place where every year cruisers childhood, your family, your hope who would never normally consider getting body ink done ‘Gone are the times when the for the future. They will draw while you talk, incorporating decide to take the plunge and only people with tattoos were ever-increasingly intricate walk away with a permanent souvenir of an important sailors and convicts’ geometric symbols, curls and loops, marine animals and graphic passage. The Pacific. Each year, lines into a gently sketched scrawl shortly after making landfall in the Marquesas in French across your skin. Then, they patiently and painstakingly

Polynesia, the twitter of rumours about skilled artists take apart and explain each stroke, each mark of the starts circulating and newly tanned skinned becomes pen, describing just why they drew this or that line or freshly etched with indelible art. From Easter island to shape and why it should matter to your entire story.

Samoa, New Zealand to Hawaii, the Polynesian tradition And the result is a fine line black lace of design, worn of tattooing strikes a chord within every visiting sailor with pride by countless cruisers each sailing season. and they decide to grab the chance while they can. It’s often the people that you least suspect that decide

But far from being yet another form of cultural to go for it as well. Like some secret mark of a superhero, appropriation what is happening is far more of an Polynesian sailing tattoos are often hidden away so that appreciation of something deeper in these cultures. You their mild-mannered owners can carry on with their see we’re talking about a legacy of seafarers, older than pretence of being really very ordinary indeed. Sure, that the visiting European sailing ships. The rich history of same Mary Jones may have swallowed the anchor and put

Polynesian ocean travel and exploration is something they her sailing days behind her and now works in a pottery wrote about in these art forms. Each individual tattoo was shop. But little do they know that she still has the looping layered with symbol and meaning specific to the wearer, curves of a dancing manta ray traced around her hip. telling tales of their family, their journey and experience. Sure, it’s a far cry from the traditional pig and rooster

So too does every sailor crossing that special threshold tattoos adorning sailors’ feet during World War II in a from the relative safety of the coastline of the Americas out bid to protect them from drowning as we’re talking about into the much dreamt of exotic wilderness of the Pacific something far less bold, and a lot more personal to a feel that they too have been on an inward journey far character’s experience of a voyage but it is nevertheless a greater than the number of miles now under their keels. JESS LLOYD- steadfast featuring milestone of modern global cruising.

They are fresh with the exhilaration of achievement and MOSTYN Jess and James left the And why not? Is it any different from noting a visit from endurance. For most, that crossing represents the longest UK in 2011 in their dolphins in your boat’s log book or celebrating crossing and greatest passage they have ever undertaken, stretching Crossbow 42 and have sailed halfway round the international date line? Ultimately, no matter how their bodies and minds in unexpected ways. The sailor the world, growing you look at it it’s still going to hurt. So anyone brave that now steps foot onto the verdant green land and lush their crew en route. Follow their journey enough to commit to the needle or cross oceans has hillsides of places like Fatu Hiva is forever different from at water-log.com marked themselves for life in more ways than one.

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