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

You can go your own way.

Blog time : as i write it’s mid July so supposedly that makes it peak summer in the UK – … More

Framed !

Blog time : it’s July 2021 , sultry warm and there’s been a huge bloom of pollen so i’m having … More

Challenge 65.

A sail and awe post. ‘We’ll need a smaller boat…..Jaws’ This is my first follow-up post to my piece about … More

Sail and/or.

Future-boat project. The Pocket rocket Billy Bigsteps. In my first post of this new series i taled about  getting back … More