Why most cruisers still need a leadline – and how to use it. We’ve had echosounders for decades, but leadlining is still an essential cruising skill.
Yachting Monthly
Skipper’s tips: Changing times, changing tides
Practical advice for all sailors. Tom Cunliffe has sailed tens of thousands of miles all over the world and has been a Yachtmaster Examiner since 1978
Skipper’s tips: Keep up the skills
Practical advice for all sailors. Tom Cunliffe has sailed tens of thousands of miles all over the world and has been a Yachtmaster Examiner since 1978
January 2015
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Skipper’s tips: Dump the jammer
Practical advice for all sailors. Tom Cunliffe has sailed tens of thousands of miles all over the world and has been a Yachtmaster Examiner since 1978
The Finnish Baltic may be strewn with rocks, but it’s a place of beauty…
"My luck ran out. I hit more rocks in the next half-hour than in the rest of my life to date..." says Tom Cunliffe in his January 2015 podcast for…
Skipper’s tips: Clash of spreaders
Practical advice for all sailors. Tom Cunliffe has sailed tens of thousands of miles all over the world and has been a Yachtmaster Examiner since 1978
Adventure: guide to sailing in storms
Award-winning sailor and expedition leader Bob Shepton regularly sails some of the most storm-swept latitudes in the world. Not bad for a pensioner in a 33ft Westerly
Skipper’s tips: Heave her clear
Practical advice for all sailors. Tom Cunliffe has sailed tens of thousands of miles all over the world and has been a Yachtmaster Examiner since 1978
Tried and tested: Karver KJ10 rope clutch
Duncan Kent tests the Karver KJ10 Rope Clutch, and finds it frighteningly expensive