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Lighthouses - Race to Illuminate the World by Toby Chance and Peter Williams. Price £17.99 + P&P
James Chance, who was born five years before Fresnel published his dioptric designs, spent his formative years contemplating a life in robes – either in the law courts or the church. But while at Cambridge his intellectual curiosity had been ignited by the radical changes occurring in mathematics and physics, and within a year of joining the family firm he had applied these talents to the invention and patenting of a process that massively increased the production of plate glass at Chance Brothers.
He personified the hope of Albion, not because of his abilities in pure science but rather because of his aptitude in optical engineering – at the time an undervalued branch of knowledge, though events were soon to change that. This was to propel the family firm to a position of world leadership in glass manufacture and lighthouse production and enable a British firm to compete effectively with the French for the first time.
Rivalries between the great powers was manifested in their industrial and commercial achievements. How could the fruits of science be applied to the design and building of machines? The British inferiority complex in the field of science was not paralleled in manufacturing! There seemed to be a disconnect between the world of academe and the factory floor and draftsman’s office. English society scorned business and manufacture yet some great inventions emerged that led England in the industrial revolution. France and Germany excelled at pure science but England excelled at manufacture – do the facts support this contention?
So the "Race to Illuminate the World" was on written from the perspective of Toby Chance, the grandson of the last Chairman of Chance Brothers Ltd of Smethwick, near Birmingham, and Peter Williams, editor, writer and lighthouse attendant (St.Ann's Head Lighthouse).
Reviewed in the Times newspaper for Saturday 20th September see the review on line at http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/books/non-fiction/article4786669.ece
Hurley Silhouette 17ft
Reduced for quick sale!!
£1.500.00
Hurley Silhouette mk2 + built in 1971 sail no 977 the boat Watermint has had a refit in 2009. Insurance survey - 11th May 2009 and that will stay with Watermint for 10 years,
Type - Silhouette, triple keel sloop.
Designer - Robert Tucker.
Builder - Hurley.
Construction - GBR hull, decks & superstructure.
Date Built - 1971.
Machinery - Diesel inboard engine - YANMAR 1GM10 - 9.1 hp,
Berths - TWO Berth carpet inside, small table with lots of storage inside the boat,
Spars - Equipment, wood boom & barton head furling gear,
Rigging - Stainless steel standing rigging 6mm x1x 19 construction with rolled swaged top terminals and Norseman lower terminals,Stainless steel bottle screws.
This boat is a good sea boat and has been used in offshore sailing and has been on the water since 2009
without any problems
LOA - 17'3"
BEAM - 06'7"
DRAFT - 02'1"
SAILS - Braided polyester running rigging,
1 - Jeckells main, 1- furling genoa and 1 - spinnaker.
all new riging in 2009
Boat Equipment
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D2 Eberspacher - diesel heater = and needs some Attention ?
Gas cooker and sink,
GPS Global Positioning System - but no chartplotter,
NASA Target speed log.
NAVMAN multi 3100 depth sounder,
XM DSC Radio - vhf
2 Fire Extinguishers
BLUE leatherette cabin upholestery
Berths - TWO Berth carpet inside with small table and lots of storage inside the boat.
BLUE leatherette cabin upholestery
Hull - copper coat, antifouling done in 2009 lasts 10 years
2 - 12v battery - 1 - 85amp - 2 - 110 amp batteries
The TRAILER IS ONLY GOOD FOR A LAUNCHING TRAILER
TRAILER NEEDS TLC MAY NEED TO MOVE ONTO A BIG CAR FLATBED TRAILER TO TAKE THE BOAT A WAY
THE BOAT IS OUT OF THE WATER ON THE TRAILER AND READY TO GO STRIGHT ON THE WATER FOR SAILING
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OR JUST RING - 07816407279
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GP14
classic sailing dinghy 14ft
quick sale!!
£1,500.00
The boat is grp .It is in good condition with sails and all new rigging and LAUNCHING TRAILER.
All the work has been done and ready to go.
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OR JUST RING - 07816407279
OR EMAIL : adambowen@fsmail.net
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