Anchoring is like a religion. There are a number of beliefs and within every belief there are varieties and interpretations. Anyhow, when you start sailing and living on the hook…
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What’s better for sailing, wheel or tiller steering?
There is a lot you can change on board a yacht, but the method of steering – wheel or tiller – is typically not up for discussion or redesign. Some…
Island Packet SP Cruiser used boat review: Might be the ultimate utility yacht
There comes a time in the lives of many racing sailors when they decide that they’ve done their share of thrashing around the cans – or along the coast, across…
Charting her own course: How Rachael Sprot stepped up to write the iconic Shell Channel Pilot
Producing a new edition of the Shell Channel Pilot after the retirement of Tom Cunliffe was always going to be a challenge. The two sides of La Manche are among…
The Woolverstone Project: ‘On Monday mornings I come alive’ – Sailing Charity of the Month
On a cool and breezy Monday morning in May, the atmosphere around the project buildings at Alton Water near Ipswich, Suffolk, was cheerful and purposeful. A number of disabled adult…
What it’s like sailing for a greater good as a citizen scientist
Staring out over the white-speckled blue, the wind pushes us gently west towards Shetland. In between, there is the ocean and life. I scan the horizon. The reward comes in…
How do you navigate a drying channel when the charts disagree?
Tim and Josh have found a space for their Bowman 40, Artemis, which has a 1.5m draught, at Treluggan Boatyard which is five miles off the Tamar up the River…
Dispatches from Les Sables d’Olonne: Fifteen solo skippers start the Golden Globe Race
And they’re off! On the afternoon of Sunday 6th September, fifteen skippers left the Vendee Globe Pontoons in Les Sables d’Olonne, with one more soon to follow after a last…
Space-age navigation without the space-age price tag
Electronic navigation comes in all shapes and sizes these days, from an app on your phone to a purpose-made top-end marine chartplotting and instrument system costing multiple thousands, and from…
Forget good company, give me a crew who can fix the head! – Libby Purves
Kindly, tolerant people don’t usually rate their friends according to how useful they are. If they do it’s not so much a friendship as a networking opportunity, influence-and-patronage. In real…