Category: Our Stories
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Foutala towel
We’ve taken a sarong sailing as a towel for years. The main advantage being how compact and light they are. This foutala is just slightly thicker than most sarongs and so it feels more like… […]
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Nelson’s seamanship
Horatio Nelson: The making of a seaman Dan Houston charts the career that began as a 12-year-old Midshipman in 1771 and ended at Trafalgar, 34 years later It seems almost brutal to us now that… […]
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RIP James Lawrence: a sailorman in stitches
When the last six working Thames sailing barges doused their canvas for the final time in 1963 it was the end of an era, but Jim Lawrence survived. Dan Houston first met him in 1999… […]
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Red Sails film Directed by Michael Maloney
The rebuilt Thames Sailing Barge Cambria features heavily in this film, which is all about the so-called TSBs – their role in trade which has now developed into charter mainly around the waters of the… […]
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No 6 The IW 31 Varvet
Built for ocean races – which gives extra confidence when you sail with the family Nardi’s Nods – By Federico Nardi of Cantiere Navale Dell Argentario. Translated by James Robinson Taylor With the IW 31… […]
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Swimming with Sperm whales in the Azores
Dr Chris Brown teamed up with Krystle Wright to film this incredible story of photographing Sperm Whales on Pico Island in the Azores. Find out if their reputation as aggressive as the myths and legends… […]
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Navigation basics: Latitude and longitude
Dividing the earth; meridians and parallels and how they can be used to pinpoint any locations. Degrees, minutes and the Nautical Mile. And how the grid scale on a nautical chart uses these measurements to… […]
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Rosemary III sailing in Falmouth
Rosemary III – Fife’s 1925 creation restored at Penpol recently and now for sale with Barney Sandeman… time to start playing the lottery! And sometimes a restoration that just gets back to the original layout… […]
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Andrew Bray: Forecasting
What there is now is what I would call absolute forecasting… but keep watching the visual signs if you don’t want to get caught out By Andrew Bray In mid-November I decided to go out… […]
