The Magic of the muddy bits !.

Mr Giles and Mr Griffiths. Post 1 : Maurice Griffiths. Part ‘G’ of the boats and designers series. Blog time…

Funky, Foxy, Fairey.

‘F’ is for Uffa Fox ‘F’ is for Fairey Atalanta. Blog time : well, it’s mid April and just going…

12 Rules : Responsibility.

Title photograph : Cathedral peak, high Sierra mountains California. Physician heal thyself. A herring should hang by it’s own tail.…

Fantasy and Freedom.

‘F’ is for Freedom : which is a bit ironic right now ! Blog time : It’s early April 2020…

The high ‘Cee,s’

The Contessa 26. Canterbury tales. An unknown bloke who designs fast dinghies and dayboats. What was i thinking ?, here…

She said what !

Note to readers : this is a smaller fragment of a longer story that is buried in my blog, what…

Make that hill my bitch !

Blog time : late March 2020.  It’s a bright clear and cool early morning so in a few minutes i…

Walk, signal, manoeuvre.

A new etiquette for the trail. Blog time : it’s late March 2020 and we have just had the announcement…

30 is the number.

Boat design series. The sea-going 30 foot boat. Note to readers….obviously things are, shall we say, a bit different at…

12 Rules…the ten mile principle.

Title picture : High Sierra country.  Jason Collins photograph. Post 2 in this old hiker’s ’12 Rules for Hiking’. Walking…