Budget boats…..the bottom line.

Absolutely and definitely the last word about budget boats…for now…..maybe.. For those readers who have been following along with this … More

Light on your pocket…..yacht.

Pocket yachts, post 3. The low budget pocket yacht. In my first two posts of this series i based my … More

The offshore pocket yacht.

Pocket yachts , second post. In the first post of this series i talked about my experiment to make a … More

A testing time at anchor.

January 2022 anchored post. This post started life as a series of notes in my logbook from when i was … More

Cold, sick, tired and miserable.

No……not a Covid post ! Personal factors in sailing small boats. This post will be the last one in my … More

What if……open boats ?

Title photograph : Lyme bay and the Bill of Portland. New Facebook group, The Backyard Boatbuilder : https://www.facebook.com/groups/892923134689307 Boats, open … More

Open boat minded.

The Backyard Boatbuilder here : https://www.facebook.com/groups/892923134689307 Part 2 of my new open boat series ‘An open boat for open water’. … More

An open boat for open water.

A new series of posts….so – And a new Facebook page too : https://www.facebook.com/groups/892923134689307 Blog time : it’s mid October … More

Gone west….look to windward.

Blog time : it’s past mid July 2021 and far too warm under the shelter to get any boat-building work … More

Falmouth – first and last.

Second post in my new west-country sailing thread. For many sailors arriving in the UK or just coming back over … More