“First of all, fear helps. One hand for yourself, one for the ship” I’m glad to see, among this month’s topics, the rather vital one of how not to fall…
Yachting podcasts
Dick Durham podcast – July 2015
“Bittles was no sailor, but he knew a good idea when he saw one” Exactly 90 years ago this month, Yachting Monthly conceived an offspring, Yacht Sales & Charters. The…
Dick Durham podcast – June 2015
“The ooze had swallowed my boots. I was stuck in a quagmire of East Coast mud, 300 yards offshore” It’s an isolated spot, just a few cows grazing on marshland…
Libby Purves podcast: June 2015
“Some of the very best ‘looks’ in high fashion have travelled directly from ships and boats” Crewmates! We are iconic fashionistas. This status may not be immediately apparent to every…
Tom Cunliffe podcast: June 2015
‘Every time I sail under a bridge, I worry that I’m about to wallop it’ I once caught an innocent bystander’s VHF antenna with my topping lift when heeled…
Libby Purves podcast: May 2015
“The commodore, presumably, would take on the role of Prime Minister” Voting time! With the new fixed-term rule, General Election day approaches with all the fearful inevitability of Low Water…
Tom Cunliffe podcast: May 2015
‘Having to brass up to lie in what have always been free anchorages is another burden on our creaking cruising budgets’ My first experience of Internet-based weather forecasting for sailors…
Dick Durham podcast – May 2015
“Scraping a burning surfaceinchesfrom your face while, lying on your back is a kind of torture” By the time the weather’s good enough to launch your boat, the novelty of…
Dick Durham podcast – April 2015
“As night-time storms rattled the slates, I dreamed of that one length of studding holding the boat upright” We’re very close to saying goodbye to the gales of winter. I…
Tom Cunliffe podcast: April 2015
“Like an sailor brought up with the assumption of self-help, I decided to look into doing the job myself” My liferaft comes due for servicing this spring. One of the…