Live aboard.

This is the first of 3 planned posts about liveaboard boats and i am writing them with a specific audience … More

Fish…or cut bait ?

Over the last 2 months i have been running 3 different threads of blog posts all in parallel, firstly the … More

The second post in the series about shallow draft boats, this is the post where 1-boat steve gets to meet … More

So we were aground again….in the Solent i seem to remember. A good sailing friend once said to me ” … More

Recently i made several attempts, and some failed drafts, to cover the Donald Crowhurst story in light of the new … More

Many of you will know that i really like France as a sailing cruising ground especially south Brittanny where few … More

And expensive, but a better investment than just about any other piece of boat gear. In real time today is … More

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

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

Ok so ‘balls, bells and whistles‘ might have been better but it’s free here so you get what you get … More