Flaming June has arrived on our doorsteps – and what wonderful weather it’s been! Before the weekend my surgery fans were running flat out and all we could do was…
Yachting Monthly
Northumberland offshore wind farm at Blyth approved
A new offshore wind farm at Blyth, off the coast of Northumberland, has been approved and will be complete by the end of 2017
Jonty Pearce: Tinkering about
A few years ago I updated my ageing Avon Redstart in favour of a Tinker Tramp inflatable dinghy. Whilst I loved the Avon, and still do (it now lives in…
Tom Cunliffe July 2016 podcast
I have a charcoal filter on the foot-powered drinking-water pump in my galley. It normally catches everything and I never suffer a bad cup of tea. At Easter, I was…
Libby Purves July 2016 Podcast
Good to have the pilotage notes on going round Land’s End (p40). No headland is without its nervous moments, especially with cliffs involved, and off-lying rocks suggesting that the land…
Dick Durham July 2016 Podcast
Most people don’t ‘get’ Roger D Taylor. At one time, blinded by sunny photographs of exotic ports in over-written pilot books, nor did I. Roger sails round in ever-increasing circles…
Jonty Pearce: Fun with flags
At the end of last season I snapped our wooden flagstaff when using it as a handhold coming up the stern ladder from the dinghy. It is in a slightly…
July 2016
Here's what's inside our July 2016 issue...
New tidal model following Cowes breakwater
A new model of the tidal flows around Cowes has been produced to show the impact of the new Cowes breakwater
Cruisers invited to try racing at Cowes Week
Organisers of Cowes Week are inviting sailors who may have never raced before to join in the final Saturday of Cowes Week on 13 August 2016