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My old boat was a Holman and Pye designed Red Admiral. Very similar to the Oyster 37 they designed at the same time. She took part in...

Fantastic report. Many thanks for posting. I was on board an Oyster 37 called Mutine. We suffered no damage and ended up in Crosshaven.

Not at all embarassed. She was rather pretty...

Echo that! This solo sailor, or any other one, could readily have taken ill or be injured... down below. I'd hope someone would come...

My daughter fully expects me to get on the VHF to tell people to trim their sails... But I think that would be going too far.

It was in fact the erosion of the South Downs and his calculation of the rate of erosion that enabled Charles Darwin to establish a...

I stopped for lunch, and as I have a self-tacking jib hove-to never looks pretty. I was sitting drinking tea in the companion way...

True. My thing is not going north in the way it used to

The one time I've been rescued, we decided that the easterly F7 was a bit much to race our 20 footer, so we put her back on the mooring...

There have been times, when the in-laws are visiting, when I've been willing the pager to go off.

Those were usually the toughest jobs. They tended to come back a bit short on the banter that normally floated around. I remember one...

But what about the occasions when they don't save a life? I made a point of thanking the ambulance crew who came for my wife, even...

Christ, if we stopped unfounded opinions YBW would have to close down.

It's a good question, I often take the anchor off the bow roller, for picking up mooring buoys etc. It is heavy, I wear steel toe cap...

The YouTube channel linked by @Graham376 is usually a reliable source of information and tends not to speculate. It is generally...