Shed it……

Several months ago when the Colin Firth film ‘The Mercy’ was released i spent some time re-reading everything i could … More

Ergo 1 : cockpit.

An Inanda projects post : thinking about the sail-handling and cockpit ergonomics. Taking up the story of the delivery trip … More

Measure it, rig it, lash it.

An Inanda projects post. In a recent post i kicked around the idea of using soft synthetic (rope) standing rigging … More

Stop, think, sharpen pencils.

An Inanda projects post. Sailing Inanda from her home port of Ipswich all the way around the south-east and south … More

Frame it.

Many of you will now have noticed that Inanda has a frame (Ribs) problem in that she has a lot … More

Oh Joy !

Finally……one day not bashing into a channel-chop and instead getting a light weather run back into home waters.   The boat … More

Positively Jurassic.

Poole to Weymouth. Although it would have been really nice to hang around Poole harbour and Studland bay for a … More

Tools aloft.

A rigging bag post. Its really not a good idea to drop something heavy, sharp or heavy and sharp from … More

The bosun’s chair.

A rigging bag post. Recently i had occasion to want to go aloft, get up the mast in other words, … More

Lets dance.

Post number 4 in the anchoring series…i think. In this series of posts i am up to the point where … More