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Sunday, January 27, 2008

TANSTAAFL

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“Don’t look a gift horse in the mouth,” goes the saying. To ascertain the age of a horse, a prospective owner will examine its teeth, becau...
Sunday, January 20, 2008

Yachts and Sustainability

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Last year Mukti Mitchell sailed around Britain in a zero-emission yacht of his own design to promote a low carbon lifestyle. ( http://www.mi...
Sunday, January 06, 2008

A Sailor's Reality

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What is reasonable may be feasible and what is feasible may become reality. As I think about this, a lone sailor is battling with the eleme...
Sunday, December 30, 2007

Beauty

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What is beauty? Something that is in the eye of the beholder, the ear of the listener or the touch of one who feels with his fingers or a se...
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Saturday, December 08, 2007

Christmas

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Christmas means so many different things to many people according to their associations, cultures and age; to some the word conjures up noth...
Thursday, November 22, 2007

Time to Spare

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Mark Twain wrote the ‘Adventures of Huckleberry Finn’, in which he poses questions to the reader, perhaps with tongue in cheek, or rather mo...
Thursday, November 08, 2007

Vanity of the Sailor

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Perhaps no other person in history could match the possessions of King Solomon who amassed a great fortune by inheriting a kingdom from his ...
Monday, October 22, 2007

Running into Danger

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At the age of 16 I often crewed aboard a converted St Ives lugger. She was owned by a man nearing retirement and he had fitted her out as a ...
Tuesday, October 09, 2007

Around-in-Ten

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What is Around-in-Ten? Some who have heard about it may reply, ‘Around the Bend’! But without being prejudicial, it’s a race for 10’ sailing...
Thursday, September 27, 2007

Purist Sailor

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Purism when applied to sailing is like an aspect of a religion. How can the sailor’s ‘purism’ be defined, and what is the nature of those de...
Thursday, September 20, 2007

Identity

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Jean-Jacques Rousseau declared, “I feel, therefore I am”. Although blamed for a degenerative civilization in view of his radical and life-c...
Wednesday, September 05, 2007

Cobnor (Day Nine)

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Being ashore with the boat on the trailer during the night meant there was no movement as one would have while at anchor; therefore I slept ...
Tuesday, September 04, 2007

Cobnor (Day Eight)

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As each day passes, so the equivalent tide on successive days is later and if the moon is on the wane the rise and fall of water becomes les...

Cobnor (Day Seven)

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Weather dictates what the sailor can do. If there’s wind, he can sail, providing it is not too strong and preferably if it comes from a favo...
Monday, September 03, 2007

Cobnor (Day Six)

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Wednesday, 26th August was a day of strong winds, at times reaching near gale force 8, as forecast. For ‘Faith’ this meant being on anchor a...
Sunday, September 02, 2007

Cobnor (Day Five)

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Approximately three hours after high water ‘Faith’ took the hard at the Cobnor slipway; it was 0810 on a grey morning of Tuesday, 21st Augus...
Friday, August 31, 2007

Cobnor (Day Four)

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The early morning forecast, breakfast and ablutions having been completed I took up the anchor and paddled ‘Faith’ to the beach by the slipw...

Cobnor (Day Three)

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There wasn’t much wind early on the morning of Sunday, 19th August as the tide turned on the flood. The forecast was for a North Westerly be...
Thursday, August 30, 2007

Cobnor (Day Two)

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I woke after a fitful night to hear an uninspiring early morning forecast predicting winds between force 5 and 7 from the North West accompa...
Wednesday, August 29, 2007

Cobnor (Day One)

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On Thursday, 16th August the forecast for the weekend at Cobnor was not great – SW veering to NW 5 – 7 on the Saturday, but decreasing on Su...