Objects of desire OIL ON WATER If you move quickly, you can catch these paintings, and many more of a nautical nature, at the Royal Society of Marine Artists’ annual exhibition, open at the Mall Galleries, London, until 14 October. These two are by former winner of the show’s Classic Boat prize, Sheena Bevis-White, the image below being based on the cover of CB340. Before the Race (right) is in oil, 63cmx 67cm. Price £1,150
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HULL-SCRAPER This hull-cleaning tool is hardly the kind of glamorous objet you’re used to on this page, but it is remarkably useful for those who have no cause to lift out once a season. Suffice to say, it scrapes your hull clean. The foam head has buoyancy enough to press the cleaning blades upwards, saving any tedious hard work. Price £79.99
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HUMIDOR
“Who wants a humidor on a yacht?” Frank Sinatra and Celeste Holm might
SHOT GLASSES
have sung in ‘High Society’. How
When thirsty crew are calling for the
wrong they’d be. The Symphony
hard stuff, reach for this leather case by
humidor provides the requisite
exclusive gunmaker William Evans,
constant humidity for your smokes,
containing eight shot glasses. Available
and it comes lined in brass pipes, for
in-store only on St James’s Street,
the hell of it. Price €3,140 (c£2,771)
London. Price £485
bocadolobo.com
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