Philippa Park

  • November 24, 2015

Carol, known as the Indoor Dragon with her full acquiescence, is an owl. By which I mean that her internal clock mechanisms are set to a different datum from the…

  • November 12, 2015

The Van de Stadt Legend 34 is a sturdy and seaworthy yacht, built for serious coastal and offshore cruising in all weathers. Duncan Kent sails one off Portland

  • November 11, 2015

Hanse’s new smallest addition was designed to be affordable. Graham Snook tested her to see if she’s worth it

Jonty Pearce

  • November 10, 2015

As the dusk fell and the gloaming darkened, the shadow swirled and changed as it writhed in what light still remained, framed between the banks of trees on either side…

  • October 27, 2015

As the nights draw in on the end of the 2015 sailing season I am starting to ponder the twilight of my own working life. I have been a GP…

  • October 21, 2015

Although I do not necessarily feel any pressing need for refreshment, Continual Professional Development (CPD) requires me to attend an annual GP Refresher Course. At least the one at which…

  • October 19, 2015

Reading these columns, a few of you may have the impression of some leathery old salt, rarely ashore, twinkling across the foredeck with brine in her hair, her mind constantly…

Anchorages

  • October 19, 2015

‘The rain it raineth every day.’ So sang Feste, Shakespeare’s wise old clown, probably describing the state of affairs in Illyria some time around 1600. I suspect, though, that he…

Dick Durham

  • October 19, 2015

There are any number of DIY weather forecasting manuals and all of them train us up the same way. There’s the overview: the plan of a weather system with its…