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I think it was a Nick 32 back in the ‘70s that was called Pinkaloo, because that’s what it was. There was a story or letter in YM at the...

A great voyage, but completely wrong in its conclusions. So far as I know, it is well established that the Pacific was populated from...

. . . and just when the incumbent has started to relax, they find John Cage's 4' 33" is next on the playlist! :devilish:

Our Westerly Cirrus was 22’ and had a solid door that swung round and doubled as a door for the heads or forecabin.

They are at least dead cheap. It might be worth borrowing one to try.

You have a door on your heads? What luxury!

I used to use a cheap stylus on an old iPad. I don’t remember the name but it didn’t cost much and even cheaper ones were available. I...

We had cyberstalkers after we fitted AIS over ten years ago, friends and family of course, but it would a good while before anyone...

AIS would certainly have helped in that case, but it would be hard for a passer-by to realise there was something wrong. In the end...

In Ethiopia we stopped in a township, probably Shashemena, for a rest in a secure hotel. Some of us fancied walking a short way to buy...

It isn't just dodgy corners of London. Someone I know had a Rolex until a rather attractive East European lady got unusually friendly in...

Nothing that a good dose of senna or lactulose couldn’t put right.

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’m not saying I don’t consider it a worthwhile act. Just that given the possibility of it being tracked by a criminal gang, I wouldn’t...