Many of us have heard about the law of salvage which is embedded into maritime law – but what does it mean and what considerations are there for sailors? The law of salvage allows that a person who recovers another person’s ship/cargo in peril or lost at sea is entitled to a reward commensurate with the value of the property saved.
Liberty Ships were mass-produced cargo ships built during World War II to give the Allies much-needed merchant tonnage (the weight of the cargo of a merchant ship). Of the 2,710 Liberty Ships built during the war years 1941 to 1945, over 2,400 survived the conflict.
Origami is the traditional Japanese art of folding paper into shapes and sculptures. The word comes from ori, meaning folding, and kami, meaning paper.
Launched on the 15th June 1943, the SS Richard Montgomery was built during World War II as an American Liberty Ship.
One of the Lovesail members, Indigo Blue, is lucky enough to be involved with the Marine Mammals Research Association Expedition next year. His yacht, Chance Discovery a Discovery 55, is used for the expedition trips which aim to study marine mammals, their main threats and possible ways to help protect their vulnerable world in the Mediterranean.
Here are the Boat Jumble Dates 2018 for the UK. If you want to add your boat jumble to this list then just send the date and location to admin@lovesail.com and we will add it to the list.
Lifting a boat is a task that comes round periodically, often from the Autumn onwards. However, for those who have not done it before it may be a bit of a mystery. Here are an explanation and some tips.
Britain has a long and proud history as a great shipbuilding and seafaring nation. One of its most famous surviving ships is the tea clipper Cutty Sark.
You may have heard of the Drake Passage, one of the most feared stretches of water in the world. Yet it is also one of the most remarkable. In fact, it is the only completely unhindered ocean passage on the planet.
Lovesail Review – The dating advice website DatingAdvice has given Lovesail a fabulous mention.