Big fat ice cream time.

After our delivery trip, upwind just about all the way…….you can guess exactly what happened next yes ?….the wind went…

Wareham, Poole.

Continuing the story of my passage from Ipswich on the east coat towards home in the Tamar with the Deben…

Tales from the river bank.

Picking up from where i left off with Inanda in the river Frome at Wareham. First though a bit of…

Anchors, evolution.

In this post i am going to talk about my slowly developing knowledge of anchors and anchoring with particular reference…

Anchored…..not.

The second in my series about anchors and anchoring in small sailing boats. In this post i am going to…

Anchor down.

My recent problem in Chichester harbour when my anchor got completely buried and i needed assistance to get clear caused…

Rake it.

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

The rigging bag.

My semi practical posts about rigging seem to have garnered a whole load of interest and feedback, that might be…

Phone a friend.

What happened next…….after the engine wouldn’t start, i couldn’t budge the anchor and couldn’t sail out of the place where…

A nice little exercise.

You guys are all probably wondering about the ‘rescue’ that i have mentioned in relation to my time in Chichester. …