Country Life

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THERE is a paradox in British gardening. We pride ourselves on being an island nation and a nation of gardeners, yet there are so few gardens that really embrace the coast. The normal reaction of gardeners who find themselves anywhere near the sea is

Space

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This building’s site is located on an elevation facing the shore end, the sea, and beyond. The site is exposed to a high levels of wind from the sea. The client requested a facility that would accommodate cafés, restaurants, and small craft shops. At

PC Gamer

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The sails are high and the wind is strong as my small but humble boat cruises through open waters. It’s my first self-built ship and, thankfully, everything is running smoothly. That is, until I crash into a surprise reef and a bunch of beefy crabs c

Grit

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There were four of us there, four of the devil’s own, and a hard lot by any man’s count. We’d come together the way men will when on the beach, the idea cropping up out of an idle conversation. We had nothing better to do, all of us being fools or wo

Women's Fitness

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Remember the excitement of seeing the sea for the first time as a child? For most of us, that thrill never goes away. From the exhilaration of playing in the surf to the soothing sound of the waves, there’s nothing like being beside the sea to lift y

Top Sante

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AS THE SAYING GOES ‘LIFE’S a beach’ and there are so many reasons to make that your mantra this summer by spending quality time by the coast. Few destinations can match the raw, natural beauty of the humble seaside: the fresh sea air, the sand betwee

Yachting Monthly

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I go to sea’ said the singlehander, ‘because it’s so much simpler out there.’ He was an old friend, many oceans under his belt. Listening to his reminiscences about storms and narrow shaves in his past, you might think that a bewildering statement. S

Yachting World

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“Quick, close the hatches!” my partner Wietze calls down while we prepare an early Monday breakfast. All is ready to leave Seychelles, we’ve mustered our courage to tackle the difficult passage south, but now there is thunder, lightning, and pouring

Practical Boat Owner

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Just sailing round the island, dear” is no joke when you live on a teeny one, as I do. The beauty of Guernsey is that it’s so small I can get back in time for supper. Though I’ve sailed round it many times in all conditions, I’ll always remember a vo

Classic Boat

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It was late September before I could get away from work, and the weather in Britain had already broken. Happily I sail a cruising dinghy, so I could tow her south to the sun. After putting my car and trailer on the Roscoff ferry, I drove down to sout

NPR

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Some of the oldest farmland in America is on the Eastern Shore of Maryland. But as sea levels rise, saltwater is killing crops and threatening a way of life.

Yachts & Yachting magazine

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Last summer dad and I sailed to Greenland. I’d wanted to go since I was seven. Something about the far north always fascinated me and the current climate situation meant that time was of the essence. We sailed in our 35ft wooden yacht, Thembi, built

Popular Science

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The Popular Science display at Strand Book Store. Strand Book Store It's August, the last full month before Labor Day, which means (despite the back-to-school sales and public longing for fall), there are still plenty of long, hot summer days left fo

Woman & Home South Africa

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The roar of crashing waves, the fresh sea air, and the humbling sight of an endless blue horizon – there’s no denying the restorative effects of the ocean. In fact, it’s steeped in healing history. Victorian doctors prescribed seaside trips, while th

Anorak Magazine

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Which bus crossed the Atlantic Ocean? Christopher ColumBUS. What is the strongest creature in the sea? A mussel! What lies at the bottom of the ocean and twitches? A nervous wreck. Why do seagulls fly over the sea? Because if they flew over the bay t

Futurity

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Researchers have assessed how the quality of red sea urchin roe—the delicacy called uni—influences fisher behavior. Served as sushi, uni is the reproductive organ of the sea urchin. The red sea urchin, Mesocentrotus franciscanus, is one of the most h

Power & Motoryacht

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Station 46087 of NOAA’s National Data Buoy Center floats north of Washington’s Cape Flattery at the mouth of the Strait of Juan de Fuca, about 85 nautical miles from Port Townsend’s Blue Moose Café, the hippie-meets-shipwright breakfast and lunch joi

Motor Boat & Yachting

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Make the change when you are in control, not when the situation is controlling you. That’s what I’ve always been led to believe. My wife Carol and I have been sailing together since 1979. We have covered more than 60,000 sea miles from the Norwegian

AFAR

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With every trip, Sven Lindblad aims to turn travelers into conservationists. “When you see the glaciers and polar bears, and have a conversation about how climate is changing, it enters your psyche in a personal way,” says the CEO of Lindblad Expedit

The English Garden

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Vast pearly beaches, fiery sunsets, barnacle-encrusted rock pools – what would summer be without at least one trip to the seaside? Going on holiday to the coast may fuel dreams of a life by the ocean, but maritime gardening can appear intimidating an

Motor Boat & Yachting

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The most daunting day yet of our attempt to circumnavigate Britain in my tough but small 27ft Rhea has arrived. We have made it to Wick at the north-east tip of mainland Britain, but ahead lies the perilous journey along the exposed north coast of Sc

Literary Hub

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What is surprising in Henri Michaux’s poetry is its strength, strength combined with great silence. There is probably no other poet in this Western world (his poems are naturally closer to Eastern poetry, and the quest for economy of the haikai no re

Literary Hub

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This lake believes it is the ocean. It speaks the same language—a tongue like wind, the only word an unceasing sibilance. Ring-billed gulls search for arthropods and fish, wings bent earthward at the wrists like paper airplanes made by smart boys. Th

Space

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A narrative flows through images of the sea. Two people exchange letters, and the narrative focuses on their contents. They are talking about the ‘waves that would have crested 150 years ago’ in an oil painting by Gustave Courbet, the flow of now kno

White Horses

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The city was awash in paint. Everywhere you looked, huge swathes of colour were being thrown down – on buildings, across walls, even up 28 metre-high towers. No surface was safe. Fifteen national and international artists had converged on the doorste

Yachting World

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Dick Durham knows the East Coast of England better than most. He has sailed it, both deep water and shoal, since putting to sea in the 1960s as mate aboard the last Thames barge trading under sail. When he writes we can see straight away that his kno

Sailing Today

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Last summer dad and I sailed to Greenland. I’d wanted to go since I was seven. Something about the far north always fascinated me and the current climate situation meant that time was of the essence. We sailed in our 35ft wooden yacht, Thembi, built

Futurity

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A new algorithm can speed up search and rescue operations at sea, according to a new study. The algorithm accurately predicts locations to which objects and people floating in water will drift. Hundreds of people die at sea every year due to vessel a

Coast

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‘Even hundreds of miles from land, sailing from the Cornish coast into the Bay of Biscay, you see crisp packets and cola bottles floating by your boat, it’s very demoralising. As sailors, we use the sea and we have a responsibility to protect it. It

Wild

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Perched on the gunwale of a fishing boat, I watched rain dancing on the water. At my side was Seumas, my best friend, a friend from childhood, who had flown down from Scotland to join me in perhaps the only place on Earth wetter and windier than home