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‘Sailing your own boat is the last available way to feel that old-fashioned traveller buzz’ – Libby Purves

  • December 4, 2024

During a chilly autumn week we had to do a 36-hour round trip to Calais – we were foot passengers on one of the few ferries that still tolerate such…

‘The day the sky turned red’ – Lu Heikell encounters an unusual phenomenon

  • September 5, 2024

Saharan dust being blown across the Mediterranean is not a new phenomenon, but here it usually arrives in the form of rain. Many times we have woken up on Skylax…

‘Everyone will miss Don, but few will miss his copy’ – Remembering a sailing writing legend

  • August 6, 2024

There’s a scene in the film, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, where outlaws Paul Newman and Robert Redford watch from a crag as the distant posse chases them. To…

Don’t let Thames sewage kill off this ancient oyster fishing boat

  • July 10, 2024

Samuel Pepys mentions oysters in his diaries 68 times, but that was when they were as common as winkles along the banks of the Thames and when they were a…

‘Being stuck in a lifeboat with a tiger is, to say the least, untypical’ – Libby Purves

  • July 3, 2024

I won’t be in theatres with a notebook as much as usual this month – time for some wider, wetter horizons – but may be musing, as I often do,…

Professional sailor Pip Hare on her IMOCA 60, Medallia

‘Pip Hare has always impressed me with her grit, determination and ability’ – Pete Goss

  • June 11, 2024

The flexing of spring’s muscles calls for a dusting down of my jobs list. I never intend winter boat maintenance to become last minute but a busy life creates a…

‘Sardines cook over charcoal, sea shanties are sung and cider is swigged’ – Lu Heikell

  • June 4, 2024

There is a narrow street leading up from Port du Rosmeur to the town centre of Douarnenez, in the Finisterre region of Brittany. Rue Obscure is paved with cobbles and…

‘My experience of the Clipper Round the World Yacht Race’

  • May 29, 2024

Dirty, wet and hungry; riding 30ft waves on a boat which was permanently tilted at 45°, I realised that this experience wasn’t quite what I’d been sold on that induction…

‘The best thing about a concrete boat? The worst ones are at the bottom of the sea’

  • May 9, 2024

Circumnavigator, Rob Hart, poked the glowing embers of his coal stove, set a cup of tea in front of me and said: ‘You know the best thing about a concrete…

Deadlines and sailing? Oh how the wind gods laughed!

  • February 2, 2024

Passage planning is more a leap of faith than hard fact. Yes, we study the passage charts, tides and currents, prevailing winds as well as the forecasts and use a…

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