Author: Dan Houston
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Isabel and her watersail
Setting a watersail is something you can do in light airs to give you that extra half knot of speed. Typically watersails hang below the boom of a fore and aft sailing vessel, and mostly,… […]
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Instructors’ tales: Tea’s Up
In which Bob Hammond discovers that, as the instructor aboard, his novice crew are likely to take him, very precisely, at his word… “Just try making it in the sink mate,” I suggested It is… […]
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Sunseeker fined £358,000 for using illegal teak
UK LUXURY YACHT FIRM FIRST TO BE SENTENCED FOR IMPORTING MYANMAR BANNED TEAK In a landmark court case in the UK, Sunseeker International Ltd has been fined £358,759.64 for using teak imported from Myanmar (Burma),… […]
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Brest festival featured on video
A video of Brest. We were happy to meet our American friends from Off Center Harbor at Brest this summer. And they have just produced a video of their experience. CS readers can see it… […]
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Imray to cease chart production
We have had this press release from Imray: For more than two centuries, Imray has been a trusted name among mariners and sailing enthusiasts. Today, we announce the gradual conclusion of our chart publishing operations,… […]
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Don Street Remembered
The American sailing author, pilot of the Caribbean Don Street died aged 93 in May 2024 at his home in Glandore, Ireland. Dan Houston looks back on his life and describes how it was sailing… […]
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Nights at Brest
Late at night at the Brest festival… a short photo essay by Nigel Pert to the music of Alan Špiljak (Stars above – from the Silverlight album) The photos are from the bilingual book… […]
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Rendezvous Brest
A photo essay of the book on Brest. It covers 30 years of the Brest Festival which held every four years (but not 2020) since 1992 in Brittany. Some 2,000 vessels – from canoes to… […]
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Seven Sisters and Beachy Head
Often, ‘Classic Coast’ consists of the built environment – man-made harbours, houses and hostelries. But occasionally the landscape itself commands attention and nowhere is this more true than the length of Sussex coast known as… […]
