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Thursday, March 30, 2006

More Faith

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It looks as though my web site will almost be without change for the next few months because I’m stuck into building ‘Faith’, a Paradox micr...
Friday, March 17, 2006

‘Faith’ Building

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Faith building sounds like something to do with a fundamental Christian religion; the thing pastors, deacons and evangelicals work at day in...
Sunday, March 12, 2006

Temptation

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In the autumn of last year I started to build a Matt Layden Paradox micro-sailboat, but when the winter weather made its presence felt I was...
Monday, March 06, 2006

Jack London

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Jack London had a very short, but action packed life; he died in 1916 at the age of 40 after having spent most of his life writing both fict...
Sunday, February 26, 2006

Wave over Wave

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Here’s a shanty by Jim Payne on the theme of a sailor’s lot when sailing ships were commonplace. The ditty tells the story of a sailor who ...
Saturday, February 18, 2006

The Three Voices

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Over past months I’ve scoured Internet archives for good poetry on the subjects of the ‘sea’ and ‘ships’, but my search has borne little fru...
Saturday, February 11, 2006

A Shanty

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Rudyard Kipling has written many a good yarn and some provocative poetry. For today’s entry I’ve chosen, ‘The Last Chantey’. This is a dir...
Saturday, January 28, 2006

A Whale of a Time

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I thought this little article I prepared for the smallsailboats Yahoo! discussion group might be appropriate here. It tells of an encounter ...
Saturday, January 21, 2006

The Sea

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It's said you either like the sea or you hate it, but maybe there are those who are amibivalent about it? I love the sea when all is fi...
Sunday, January 15, 2006

‘Master and Commander’

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My brother was somewhat surprised that I had not read any novels by Patrick O’Brian, the Anglo-Irish novelist whose stirring tales of the Br...
Saturday, January 07, 2006

Sea and the Hills

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‘Sea and the Hills’ is a compelling and enigmatic poem by Rudyard Kipling that demonstrates a certain knowledge and understanding of the sea...
Monday, January 02, 2006

The Wind and the Sea

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I know precious little of Paul Dunbar, except he wrote a poem in which he personifies a relationship between the wind and the sea, such that...
Wednesday, December 28, 2005

Vagaries of the Sea

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The appearance of the sea is for ever changing, since it is affected by particular light settings, moment by moment, and because of the vari...
Thursday, December 22, 2005

Christmas Eve

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I found this poem floating around in cyber space; therefore I gather it’s there for all sailors at this time of year, especially the very yo...
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Sunday, December 18, 2005

Yachtsman’s Christmas Tree

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The Westerly Yacht Owners Association has a popular meeting at East Cowes Marina on the first Saturday of December. I am reliably informed ...
Sunday, December 11, 2005

‘Little Jim’

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I have no idea how Alastair Law came to name his Paradox micro-sailboat, ‘Little Jim’, but there is a poem by E.Farmer with the name as a ti...
Friday, December 02, 2005

Roadways

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As you’ve probably gathered, John Masefield is a favourite poet of mine, especially as several of his ballads are about the sea and ships. ...
Wednesday, November 30, 2005

Longing for the Open Water

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Ellen MacArthur’s next project will be a personal crusade to save the Albatross. (http://www.savethealbatross.net/) She has an affinity w...
Monday, November 28, 2005

Bolt Together Boat

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Bolt Together Boat There’s been sparse activity on this blog, because I’ve been busy with those things that ‘need’ doing; one of them has...
Tuesday, November 22, 2005

“The Wreck of the Hesperus”

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There’s no chance for a foolish skipper and his crew when he ignores the wisdom of the wise. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s poem, “The Wreck ...