I worry about clouds. Not the fine grey fluffy ones that hog the sky and deny us our vitamin D, or the dark ones that so love to drench us,…
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Tom Cunliffe podcast – Summer 2015
Have you noticed the way the world seems to spin a lot faster in the first few hours after returning from a cruise? It struck me hard when I came…
Dick Durham – podcast Summer 2015
There is a cartoon drawn by Mike Peyton that sticks in my mind. Two boats are sailing abeam from an anchorage in light conditions. The helmsman of the one nearest…
Libby Purves podcast – Summer 2015
I wrote a novel years ago, Casting Off, in which a furious wife, at the end of a scratchy weekend a deux, watches her husband carrying his bag up the…
Our verdict on the Jeanneau Sun Odyssey 45DS
What’s she like to sail? The Jeanneau Sun Odyssey 45DS had options for shallow draught or a deeper, high-performance setup. We tested the performance option, so she had plenty of…
J Class racing in Falmouth
Three majestic J Class yachts battle it out off the south Cornish coast
Summer 2015
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Scouts sail River Colne aboard ‘Pioneer’
On Saturday 20th June the youngsters set off down the River Colne in Essex aboard Pioneer. OGA member, Judy Harrison, was skipper for the day and started by showing the…
What all sailors can learn from Cyclone Pam
Cyclone Pam wrecked dozens of yachts in Vanuatu. Tom Partridge returns to Port Vila to ask who survived, and how
Our verdict on the Moody 36
What’s she like to sail? These solidly built, medium-displacement cruisers are capable of a very reasonable pace in open seas, where they offer a particularly sea-kindly motion. Thanks to the…