Category: Our Stories
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Raymarine Flir TK Scout
When we first tried one of these many moons ago it was extremely impressive but large and very expensive. However, as is the way of tech, you just have to wait a bit and it’ll… […]
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Instructors’ tales: Sticky situation
In which John Clarke recalls a battery top-up tip from an old soldier he’d prefer his charterers not to follow Having run a sailing school for 18 years I can honestly say that the instructors… […]
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Garmin GPS 73
With a clear monochrome display and highly sensitive GPS, it’s perfect for either the cost-conscious sailor or someone wanting a back up. It stores 1000 waypoints and 100 tracks. The features include virtual starting line,… […]
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GoSun stove
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… […]
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Heaving the Log
A line, to which markers or ‘knots’ were placed at eight fathom (47ft 3inches to be precise) intervals, was wound on the reel which one man holds over his head.To the end of this 500ft… […]
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Michael Frith – Marine Artist
Working successfully in watercolours is the most difficult medium to pull off. When done right it can be subtle yet luscious, vibrant yet calm. Michael Frith is one of those rare artists who successfully allows… […]
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Over the Yardarm – Cider Brandy from Britain
Is anything better than Calvados? asks Guy Venables. Yes, and it comes from Somerset Whenever I hear that someone’s going to France I ask them two questions. The first is “Can you bring me back… […]
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Instructors’ tales: Table for three?
In which Steve Crook recalls the inevitable degeneration of a couple’s weekend refresher course It started out much like any other teaching assignment. A married couple wanted to spend a May weekend brushing up their… […]
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Cooking under Pressure
By Guy Venables Most people, when they think of pressure cookers wince and tell stories of extra portholes blown through various parts of boats. These were the old aluminium ones that did indeed creak and… […]
