Category: Our Stories
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Sailing Gaffers by Viv Head
A definitive history of the Old Gaffers Association, both afloat and ashore, covering the various regional areas in a series of yarns that brings this colourful organisation to life on the page. One of our… […]
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Over the Yardarm: Making a toast
By Guy Venables I’ve often thought that when it comes to drinking toasts there’s invariably something sentimental about them. “Well, obviously,” I hear you say, as they’re usually conceived with an arm around a best… […]
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THE FROZEN FRONTIER: Polar Bound through the Northwest Passage By Jane Maufe
This is a charming description of the challenge of attempting to be the first private vessel through the most northerly route of the Northwest passage, followed by cruising around Alaska and then back the following… […]
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Adrift: Seventy Six Days Lost at Sea by Steven Callahan
Part survival story and partly a spiritual journey through a horrifyingly grueling event, this book is not only a particularly eloquent survival story but it could even be perceived as a manual. Callahan built his… […]
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Polishing up the gelcoat
Topsides looking a bit dull? David Parker describes how to buff up your boat by choosing the right polishing compounds and a power polisher When you have owned wooden boats, as attractive and charismatic as… […]
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Tally Ho – the new keel
By Leo Goolden This episode, I work on turning an enormous lump of Purpleheart Timber into a new Keel for the historic sailing vessel, Tally Ho. I make a plywood pattern from the old keel,… […]
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Cruising for Enterprising types
Colin Gilbert converted his Enterprise to go dinghy cruising… to Beaulieu, Truro and Chichester Harbour Some sailing friends may have noticed various temporary additions to my Enterprise which do nothing to help it win races.… […]
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Instructors’ tales: The pierhead jump
In which Trevor Clifton describes some of the skills needed to sail out of harbour We sailed everywhere. No engines was the rule. That was when you could tie up on harbour walls. It’d be… […]
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Rule of Tenths
Rule of twelths? It’s a bit tricky with metric charts… so use the Rule of Tenths: As your on deck ready reckoner for the state of tide Working out tidal heights using the traditional rule… […]
