Gear

Liferaft repair

  • October 6, 2017

All liferafts are sold with puncture repair kits, but are they any use at sea, when it’s a matter of life or death? Ben Meakins finds out

bosun's chairs tested

  • May 25, 2017

Dangling many metres above the deck isn’t the time to find out that your bosun’s chair cuts off the blood supply to your legs. However, most of our mast-climbing devices…

Innovation

  • February 1, 2017

Shiny new gadgets that talk to each other are just too much to resist for Jonty Pearce, as he gives into temptation once more

mast climbing kits on test

  • January 30, 2017

 It must have been a wise man who once said that: ‘A fear of heights is illogical. A fear of falling, on the other hand, is prudent and evolutionary.’ Perhaps…