Objects of desire RARE NAUTICAL BOOKS 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catalogue, newly published, features plenty for yachting historians and lovers of sailing memorabilia, for example an unpublished set of journals kept by a Royal Navy midshipman during a tour of the Gulf in 1930-33, including an account of a visit to Dubai and an on-board reception for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.
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ENDURANCE LOGBOOK BY TOM CUNLIFFE Designed with Classic Boat columnist
SAIL DESIGN
Tom, who is also, among other things, a
Stroodles, manufacturers of
Fellow of the Royal Institute for
environmentally friendly drinking straws
Navigation, the Endurance is bound in
made of pasta, is partnering with Clean
tough royal blue English buckram,
Ocean Sailing to run a competition to
printed on heavyweight paper and lined
draw a sail design for the organisation’s
with a hand-marbled design. It is
1908 gaff schooner Annette. Your design
section-sewn by hand to fold flat on
should “reimagine a more sustainable
your chart table, the left page is
future and an ocean free from plastic
dedicated to navigation data, while the
pollutants”. Enter via the Stroodles
right page is feint-ruled for notes. £165
website. Meanwhile, you could try a starter
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A SEA WALL
Norfolk skipper Zoe Dunford has designed this nautical wallpaper to feature boats that she sails herself, as a skipper for the Coastal Exploration Company and an instructor for Neil Thompson’s Boats. Her new wallpaper and fabrics business is called Collingwood Coastal, after a family connection to Admiral Lord Collingwood, who took over British command after Nelson was shot at Trafalgar. £59.50 for a 52cm x 10m roll.
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pack of Stroodles for £2.99
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