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Send your sailing gossip, diary dates, cruising news and club or owners’ association updates to Laura Hodgetts laura.hodgetts@futurenet.com

NEW CHANDLERY

Youboat Chandlery has opened at Premier Marina’s Swanwick site, where Force 4 was previously.

UK CHARTER SEARCH

A new website, sailfinder.org, is designed to make it easier to find, book and review yachts for charter in the UK.

FISH&CLICK

Join the citizen science project to report discarded fishing gear at sea by downloading the Fish&Click app or online at fishandclick.ifremer.fr

Sailing barge Cabby campaign

A project to launch the last full-sized wooden Thames sailing barge to be built has successfully raised £5,000 to fund, the historic 92ft vessel, once regarded as ‘the most handsome of sailing craft’, is currently languishing at Maylandsea, on the Blackwater River, Essex.

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