Up !

My fellow sufferers will be pleased to know that with my partner’s help (and with my neighbour watching) we managed … More

High aspect gaff.

Lets get back to talking about boats and their rigs. Some of my blog visitors will know that at one … More

Today i totally failed to get it up ! To think of all those years getting big ones up over … More

I have been doing what i usually do with boat projects ie sitting up late at night and thinking about … More

Well well. I was just about to contact the current owner of the Devon Yawl in Cambridgeshire to arrange a … More

At long last, the weird bloke that writes about boats……actually went sailing again ! I thought when i started writing … More

Its an odd thing when i think back to my maxi-yacht days but the one boat that i did a … More

This is the continuation of an older series within the blog where i talk about the actual life at sea … More

While i am thinking actively about the pro’s of owning and running a smaller sailing boat for a while it … More

During my ‘retirement’ cruise in Brittanny, its a few years ago now, i anchored in the Paluden river above L.Aber-Wrach … More