Category: Yarns
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Andrew Bray: Keep it simple!
Keep it simple! “One of my cruising ideals, often preached but sadly, rarely practised… How do you define simple?” Last year I was invited to judge a cruising log competition. This is not as simple… […]
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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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The Club Sanctuary
Guy Venables discovers the sanctuary of the sailing club involves more than low bar prices I have just joined a very nice little sailing club. There are many reasons to join one, the camaraderie, the… […]
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Lucy L Ford: A romantic night afloat
In early May, at the start of what was to be one of our coldest summers, the newly appointed President of the Pontoon Camping Association decided to encourage new membership and extend the BBQ experience… […]
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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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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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Instructors’ tales: Well done Fido
In which Neil Payter obtains some canine assistance in creating a true shaggy dog story Living on my boat (a Yamaha 34) at Haslar Marina with my partner Maria, who runs the Lightship bar &… […]
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The Christmas List
By Lucy L Ford For Christmas, the skipper gave me a voluminous pair of bright yellow, waterproof dungarees. A perfect match for the bright yellow, ill-fitting wellingtons purchased the year before. Whilst I might admit… […]
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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… […]