In early May, at the start of what was to be one of our coldest summers, the newly appointed President of the Pontoon Camping Association decided to encourage new membership and extend the BBQ experience of existing members, beyond the confines of the Harbour by announcing that the first ‘President’s BBQ’ would be taking place [...]
Admittedly it takes a little practice, mostly because it is such a new way of cooking but the GoSun stove is incredibly innovative – it combines an evacuated glass tube and parabolic reflectors. No fuel is required, it cooks only using solar power and it doesn’t even need to be summer. We have made muffin [...]
This is the 4th edition of this now-established guide (it first came out over 10 years ago) and it continues to improve. Coverage has now been extended northwards to include Great Yarmouth (albeit discouragingly: “There is little to commend Yarmouth as a leisure port and we don’t recommend it as a port of last [...]
His name is still used as an exclamation of shock, surprise and even outrage – and with some justification. James Gordon Bennett, reckless, feckless playboy son of the owner of the New York Herald is both hero and anti-hero of this wild tale of a three-yacht Transatlantic race, the result of a drunken bet that [...]
Page 3 of this informative book contains a list of all other titles by the same author. And there are 39 others (!) dear reader, dating back to 1971. Together they catalogue the disappearance and re-emergence of so many traditional coastal craft of the east coast, and the changing communities which kept and worked them. [...]
Of all the design offices to rise to prominence in the 20th century, Sparkman & Stephens must rank near the top. From cruising yachts to America’s Cup 12 metres (with an unsurpassed record of six winners), the iconic S & S name ruled supreme. Brothers Olin and Rod made their mark in 1931 when their [...]
With clean earlier editions of this classic on yacht design becoming rare it’s great to have a reprint from Lodestar, with forewords by both the late Ed Burnett and Ian Howlett (who prefaced the fourth edition in 1994). There is also a plans supplement and biography by THB’s late daughter Joan Jardine Brown. This edition [...]
By Derek Aslett This very successful book has now been re-issued in its third edition, and is bang up to date – for instance it includes a photo of the spinnaker tower in Portsmouth with its awful blue and gold paints, and also includes a photo of the new breakwater just off Cowes. But the [...]
by Michel Olagnon What a pleasure to have something very technical broken down into easy bites and then put together in an attractive and exciting volume beautifully illustrated with ancient Japanese paintings and the best worldwide marine artists and photographers. But this is not just pleasure. If every yachtsman and seafarer were aware of the [...]
