Tag Archives: Sailing

I return to a theme to which I have given a considerable amount of thought over the past few years, that of dinghy cruising. I have taken my 10-foot hybrid to quite a few places, and am improving on its … Continue reading →

Sailors Department – no need for blow-outs, just a good stiff breeze to fill the sails!

I still get quite a few searches, sometimes quite complex. Here are two from my stats page: gaff jaws sail home made sliding gunter rig sails I assume the word sail was put in to refine the searches, since animals … Continue reading →

If you use Firefox – For nautical terms, select the word and then right-click. Click on Search Google for “*” – the word which you selected. You will usually get specialised sailing sites or Wikipedia. I have always found the … Continue reading →

I have just today returned from north Brittany where I have spent five whole days in the footsteps and wake of a fine French TV series on the terre-neuvas in the 1920’s, Entre Terre et Mer. The terre-neuvas were fishermen … Continue reading →

My sailing club had a superb regatta yesterday afternoon. We were nine dinghies and eight catamarans. The wind was a westerly and moderate one, but very unstable with buffeting gusts, so we had to be very dynamic with the mainsheet. … Continue reading →

I made a day of it yesterday and sailed from Veules les Roses to just short short of Varangeville sur Mer, slightly to the west of Dieppe. Google Earth gave me a distance measurement of 7 and a half nautical … Continue reading →