James Stevens explains which skills are best to perfect while you have plenty of time to do so. This week, learning how to raise the alarm
Yachting Monthly
June 2017
Sailing Skills What’s the safest way to get from tender to yacht? It’s the unseen MOB risk we run everytime we transfer from one to the other Short-handed spinnaker tips…
Dick Durham Podcast June 2017
Do you feel unwelcome in your own yacht club? Maybe the rogue blazers and their beloved regulations have taken over, says Dick Durham
Things to practise in harbour – get to know your instruments
James Stevens explains which skills are best to perfect while you have plenty of time to do so. This week, get more familiar with your instruments’ capabilities
Things to practise in harbour – fitting the emergency tiller
James Stevens explains which skills are best to perfect while you have plenty of time to do so. This week, fitting the emergency tiller
Dick Durham Podcast May 2017
Biscay or bust, 44 years after a disastrously ill-fated attempt, Dick Durham finally makes the fabled crossing
May 2017
Sailing Skills Expert on Board: Seamanship in small harbours Safe mooring tactics and tips from Ken Endean for havens on exposed coasts Learning Curve: Coping with engine failure in strong…
Things to practise in harbour – changing the impeller
James Stevens explains which skills are best to perfect while you have plenty of time to do so. This week, changing the impeller in the engine cooling system
Easter flare amnesty at Cobb’s Quay
Family sea safety day in Poole harbour with book giveaways, lifejacket checks, MOB and flare demos and disposal
Jonty Pearce: Swallows and Amazons
With his working life newly at an end, Jonty muses on changing times