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…
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Tom Cunliffe November 2015 Podcast
‘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 November 2015 Podcast
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…
Skipper’s tips – Stop the rolling
Tom Cunliffe has assessed hundreds of sailors for the RYA Yachtmaster exam. He shares a few skipper's tips with us...
Disabled yachtsman aims to sail solo around the world
Keith White, a disabled sailor with the use of only one arm, is setting off from Cowes on a solo non-stop circumnavigation attempt next week
Iconic yacht Lively Lady goes for refit today
Sir Alec Rose’s iconic yacht Lively Lady is undergoing a major refit at the International Boatbuilding Training College in Portsmouth. The yacht, in which Rose competed in the OSTAR and…
Sunsail launches ‘adult only’ flotillas
Sunsail has launched two new flotilla sailing holidays for adults only
Sussex club helps university students get afloat
Sussex Yacht Club has come up with a novel collaboration with the local university to help fill empty crewing spaces and to train student sailors
‘GPS cyber vulnerabilities’: US Navy reverts to teaching astronavigation
Lesssons in celestial navigation have been reinstated at the Naval Academy in Annapolis, nearly twenty years after the subject was dropped. The move is motivated by fears that the GPS…
How to plan and sail a passage round a headland
James Stevens stands by as Yachtmaster Coastal Laura McLachlan attempts to plan, sail and skipper her first passage round a headland