In 2010 a charter yacht completed three sailing charters and over 100 miles before anyone noticed the keel fell off after she ran aground
Dick Durham
Anchorages: Halstow Creek, River Medway
Dick Durham drops anchor in Halstow Creek, a mud-hole once used to create the bricks that built London
Dick Durham podcast January 2015
“The operating manual is smothered in oily fingerprints and smells of diesel” What were two men doing zig-zag- ging across a theatre forecourt as light summer rain began to soak…
Practical seamanship: Leadlines
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.
11 yachts beaten in tough Atlantic conditions
Rough and tumble for the Route du Rhum
His bus pass is a decade old but RKJ’s off again
3,500 miles of ocean until terra firma
Marshland marina for sale
Yours for £2 million
New pontoon moorings 1 hour drive from London
At a third of South Coast price
Medway Queen rebuild stalls
Fresh funding sought
Cod oil spill in South Coast harbour
Dummy test