Category: Our Stories
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Mousehole, Cornwall
There are two significant dates in the life of Mousehole, the tiny West Cornwall harbour. The first is the night before Christmas Eve, celebrated in the village as Tom Bawcock’s Eve in memory of the… […]
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Feature In praise of the She 36
By Peter Poland Of all the design offices to rise to prominence in the 20th century, Sparkman & Stephens must rank near the top. From cruising yachts to America’s Cup 12 metres (with an unsurpassed… […]
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Itchen Ferries
By Mike Smylie I owned an Itchen Ferry once and have fond memories of her beached alongside the old Supermarine shed at Woolston, across the river from Southampton. Pal of Itchen she was called though… […]
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Orfordness Lighthouse
By the time you read this, the very real possibility of this imposing structure tumbling into the sea may have been averted, at least for another winter. Unusually severe south-easterly storms have pushed coastal erosion… […]
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Andrew Bray: Say it right, matey
By Andrew Bray. Illustration: Guy Venables If you’re fortunate enough to sail a gaff-rigger, she should really come with a dictionary of terminology to differentiate the bobstay from the snotter, the bowsprit from the bumkin… […]
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Jack London – The Call of the Sea
Jack London was a celebrated writer when in 1907 he decided to drop everything and sail around the world in his yacht, Snark. By Sam Jefferson The concept of fitting out a yacht for bluewater… […]
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The ominous words: “And then the engine stopped.”
By Andrew Bray I once co-authored a book with Des Sleightholme and Bill Anderson. It was titled What Now Skipper? and dealt with all kinds of small-boat seamanship problems. One author would pose a problem,… […]
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Ron de Jeremy… Phew!
Guy Venables finds a rum that’s all the better for decanting, as it hides the face on the label I have long been aware that the process of decanting wine into a decanter has many… […]
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Cruising Yachts by T Harrison Butler
With clean earlier editions of this classic on yacht design becoming rare it’s great to have a reprint from Lodestar, with forewords by both the late Ed Burnett and Ian Howlett (who prefaced the fourth… […]
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