Kindly, tolerant people don’t usually rate their friends according to how useful they are. If they do it’s not so much a friendship as a networking opportunity, influence-and-patronage. In real…
Opinion
Stop obsessing over forecasts: My cure for sailing’s analysis paralysis – Lu Heikell
Sitting down and worrying about the small stuff whilst preparing Skylax for sea, I remember how it used to be. I first stepped onto Seven Tenths more than a quarter…
Why attention to detail beats gut instinct on the offshore circuit
The start of this season is a tale of two boats with DMS Vinyl, a 50ft DazCat built out of Millbrook, shouldering Oddity aside as we work her up for…
Builder of Dragons and friend to royalty: The life of Peter Wilson
Between the rooftops I spotted a white-sailed yacht close-hauled and heading north. Ebb must be away, I thought, as I drove down the hill from Aldeburgh’s St Peter & St…
Does your boat represent freedom or a is it a floating prison? Libby Purves
While listening to a programme on BBC Radio 4, I heard a historian quoting a medieval mystery play. These 14th- century spectacles always had a bit of low comedy alongside…
‘Astral was rolled and lost her mast as the wind increased to 80 knots’ – Dick Durham
This year marks the 75th anniversary of the world’s second worst yacht-racing disaster, and yet most sailors have never heard of it. It has gone unremarked for all these years…
Ocean with David Attenborough: ‘This film is really about how to create abundance…’
The ocean is our planet’s life support system, covering over 70 per cent of the Earth, constituting over 90 per cent of its habitable space, producing more than half the…
How the smartphone quietly conquered marine photography… eventually – Pete Goss
Writing will always be something I enjoy but there is no denying that ‘a picture says a thousand words’. With its many moods this seems particularly so when at sea.…
‘Give me the patient strategy of offshore racing over the spectacle of SailGP’ – Lu Heikell
I have been following three offshore yacht races in recent months, which allows me to vicariously scratch the itch of sailing whilst at my desk. The Mini Globe is unapologetically…
How can we future-proof the Solent against climate change?
Climate change is driving sea level rises, and over the next 100 years, our seas are expected to continue rising by over one metre. In some areas with high, rocky…