Author: Dan Houston

  • Ultimate Marine Espadrilles!

    Ultimate Marine Espadrilles!

    Press release from Alice X Global :    If you’re living or relaxing around water this summer, steer a course towards sensational new luxury espadrilles from a brand that’s making waves with fashion-conscious adoptees, including ‘Made… […]

  • Classic Yachting & the Corinthian Spirit.

    From CYOA:  On Saturday, June 2nd at 1700, CYOA (Classic Yacht Owners Association) will be co-hosting an event at IYRS in Rhode Island about Classic Yachting & the Corinthian Spirit.  Join our panel of experts… […]

  • Leatherman Crunch

    Leatherman Crunch

      Long term test This was the first multitool with integral locking pliers, which effectively work like molegrips, allowing you to clamp up to a 1 in (25mm) diameter pipe, or nut. It takes a… […]

  • Colin Baxter

    Colin Baxter

    With his ingenious usage, possibly through necessity, of old charts for painting seascapes, Colin Baxter gives us both a flat perspective and an astral overview of his subjects, fixing his paintings forever in a defined… […]

  • Manx Nickeys – Smylie’s Boats

    Manx Nickeys – Smylie’s Boats

    By Mike Smylie Disaster struck the Isle of Man in 1787 when much of the fishing fleet was destroyed in a particularly nasty gale at Douglas. These were the older scoute type of vessel, an… […]

  • The Fal River

    The Fal River

    It was Easter, but bitterly cold, so we had the river pretty much to ourselves and it was like being back in the 19th or even (for Poldark fans) the 18th century.We were aboard Luke… […]

  • The mighty Zulu – Smylie’s Boats

    The mighty Zulu – Smylie’s Boats

    By Mike Smylie From the start here I must admit to being somewhat biased. Why? Because it’s my opinion that the Zulu – which is sometimes referred to as the Moray Firth fishing vessel –… […]

  • Penzance

    Penzance

    Penzance is the most westerly of the three great harbour towns of West Cornwall. It is less of a honeypot than St Ives and Falmouth, but it is at least as rewarding.For a start it… […]

  • Inflatable paddle board

    Inflatable paddle board

    Inflatable Paddle board review: trying one of these was something of a revelation Not many boaters will have failed to notice the rise of paddleboarding on just about any stretch of water that is available.… […]