Dave Selby confirmed as CA’s guest speaker
Dave Selby is confirmed as guest speaker for the Cruising Association's Autumn Northern Roadshows CA North West Autumn Roadshow: Birkenhead | The Royal Mersey YC, 19 October CA North Midlands Autumn Roadshow: Nottingham | National Watersports [...]
Hand, Reef and Steer: 2nd Edition by Tom Cunliffe
An update of the standard text for gaff rig sailors of cat boats, cutters, sloops, yawls, ketches and schooners – now with updated sections on modern gaffers, replicas and the big class. This is principally [...]
Jetski is a Russian Word
By Sam Llewellyn It is a little-known fact that the jetski, like the tractor and the iron lung, was invented by Stalin - though on closer inspection the roots of these machines in a Communist [...]
Will mead supersede?
By Guy Venables If gin was last year’s drink, a new trend seems to be mead. I know. Mead?! My mother was a beekeeper and used to make her own mead out of just honey [...]
D-Day relics granted government protection
REMEMBERING D-DAY - SECOND WORLD WAR SITES GIVEN PROTECTION Second World War concrete training landing craft, sunken tanks and armoured bulldozers, and components of Mulberry floating harbours all given heritage protection D-Day on 6 June [...]
A new Thames Sailing Barge
Classic Sailor went aboard the new Thames Sailing Barge Blue Mermaid. We joined her in the Blackwater in Essex for a sail out into the Thames estuary and round to Brightlingsea A [...]












