Good to have the pilotage notes on going round Land’s End (p40). No headland is without its nervous moments, especially with cliffs involved, and off-lying rocks suggesting that the land…
Cruising life
Dick Durham July 2016 Podcast
Most people don’t ‘get’ Roger D Taylor. At one time, blinded by sunny photographs of exotic ports in over-written pilot books, nor did I. Roger sails round in ever-increasing circles…
Jonty Pearce: Fun with flags
At the end of last season I snapped our wooden flagstaff when using it as a handhold coming up the stern ladder from the dinghy. It is in a slightly…
Jonty Pearce: The joys of getting older
I’m beginning to feel my age. At 58, I feel a little aggrieved at getting arthritis, but I have to remind myself that as a GP I daily see patients…
Jonty Pearce: A Year Of Blogging
Amazingly, a year has passed since my first entry into blogging with ‘A large man in a small hole’ on May 19th 2015. Producing one every week dismayed me at…
Dick Durham June 2016 podcast
I went to Mike Peyton’s wake recently. Not surprisingly, because he’s still world- renowned for his wry humour, it was not a gloomy affair. There were about 60 of us…
Libby Purves June 2016 podcast
Years ago when we were young, we went to a few yacht club meets in our Contessa 26, Barnacle Goose. All the other boats were much bigger and grander, with…
Jonty Pearce: Mooring Up
We arrived at Neyland to find Aurial returned to her usual berth after the repairs to the fractured pontoon piles. Not only is she now closer to the access bridge…
Bareboat charter – touching the dream
Before you sell up and sail away from the UK, ask yourself: is the liveaboard life for you? Try it on a bareboat charter somewhere exotic to find out
Jonty Pearce: At last! The sailing season
As we we drove into Neyland Marina on Friday night the first thing I noticed was that all the stored boats had been moved from the car park – a…