How small and basic…cruiser.

Note to regular readers, this post is a complete re-write of a very early post of mine in the blog … More

Jimmy 2 hulls.

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

Next in the series of posts about shallow draft/beachable boats, this time it’s the race derived boats around the quarter-ton … More

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

An ocean post : no 4 in the practical side i think. I could call this post, Ocean : everything … More

It’s a slightly bonkers idea i have that in 20 months time i want to be heading out to sea … More

An ocean post. Very few sailors today will have heard of the late Commander Bill King and that’s a shame … More

An ‘ocean’ post. The ocean posts are going in 2 very different directions, one line of posts is the practical … More

This is the first of a series of slightly more thoughtful posts which i will be working on during the … More

One of the ‘rigging bag’ posts. In the first series of posts about Inanda’s rig i wrote about the problem … More