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Buckler’s Hard Deputy Harbour Master and Yacht Harbour team develop new emergency ladders

14th October 2024

Rescue safety at top of the agenda for Buckler's Hard... Just down the road from Beaulieu (and linked with it), is the fascinating and historically important riverside village of Buckler's Hard, tranquil today but vital to this country's shipbuilding in years gone by. The village and the Buckler's Hard Yacht Harbour are well worth seeing, but of course both are adjacent to water and safety is … [Read more...]

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