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The boats are getting launched for trials and work up ahead of the competition. Must make some traditionalist sailors heads explode..... :D

Early this year around the Canaries. Didn't used to get any. Now it's nearer mid spring and in bigger quantities. Watch out if you are planning on heading down this way, bigger bunches.....or whatever.....tend to trap plastic and other rubbish to clog engine inlets and propellers.

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Been on odd one with a lot of attrition. Clear winner kinda makes you wonder about the pursuit handicaps, but undoubted true grit by the entrant. Cole Braue4, due to finish tomorrow ish has stolen the show. Good one. Countdown for Cole Brauer finish >> Scuttlebutt Sailing News: Providing...

Anyone else remember this classic? Winner of the 1989/90 Whitbread. Fab restoration job, looks great. Didn't even mind getting held up by them getting splashed in the travel hoist dock last week! Got a good look then. Photo is today.

Hiya Mr B I know you like this sort of thing. Fairline 45 Targa twin volvo 475s. Bocayna Straits. Super!

Would you have their courage? I'm asking myself that... Shipwrecked adventurers ate sharks to survive 118 days in the Pacific

Took our friend's Sigma 33 out for a spin this morning.....they also own the cat we recently delivered from Gib. So whole new ballgame. Light winds sun, yadda yadda. But point is, one fender had been dangling in the water for a while and had attracted marine growth (various). Including a very...

I'm sure some of the forum techno gadgeteer know about these endoscope cameras. I can report though fir average sailor, this is really useful. We got a woven plastic builders type bag around an outside leg. This device taped to the end of a deck brush vastly simplified its removal.

Low temperature sailing is something I've happily dodged for some time. But Neptune has chosen to send a wet and cold spell to Southern Spain over the next few days, just after I get there. So taking foulies and thick socks, hat, yadda yadda is the theme of the day. No delivery is ever smooth...

Some friends of ours have bought themselves a rather nice Lagoon 380 to live on. They saw the boat in Greece and had it delivered to Estepona, Spain. They asked me to help them bring the boat down here to Lanzarote in the New Year. Good one. So I got my cousin who is an up and coming sailor to...

We set off around 1000 tomorrow from Lanzarote for the 48 hours ish passage to Agadir. Boat is a rather nice Jenneau 35. Bit of motoring to do looking at forecast. Looking good but perhaps a bit chilly at night. It will be nice to be offshore again. 🙂 The thing with going to Agadir, though is...

We had a stroll along the prom at Playa Blanca this afternoon after I had been doing some boaty jobs in the marina. As is usual at this time of year, the marina is toppers with transients heading westward as the official Atlantic hurricane season draws its curtains for another year. The...

Season now under way and making way. Dozens of dinghy of lots of classes arriving plus their safety snd coaching ribs. Here is a snap of one of two British racing team ribs alongside my favourite Sigma 33. Although the yacht isn't raced anymore love sailing her!

Man Overboard Training Manikin (MOB) - Water Rescue Training Dummy - Man Overboard Simulation Mannequin Not a scuttlebutt dummy.

My good friend has just taken delivery of this,:

Yes. I've done it. Woe is me. So for perspective, these events took place in Gibraltar that has zero tax on marine diesel... Two involve me indirectly, the third yeah, mea culpa. The first time I was involved in a fuel free incident, I was leaving Marina Bay on a Bavaria 37. Inbound was a...

Next epic adventure to set off from UK is Don Mcintyres latest, setting off from Southampton on Sunday. Having avidly watched Maiden first time round, great to see her on lap 2. Good luck all! Home