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What’s Happening? From January 1st 2022 we will be subject to new guidelines relating to the reporting of certain information if we sail to or from locations outside the UK and the Isle of Man – this includes a trip to and from the Channel Islands. In particular, we will need to give information on: […]

This morning we went to pay our respects at the old Penlee Lifeboat Station between Newlyn and Mousehole. A brisk south-easterly breeze gave the gulls an airstream to dive & soar above the Royal National Lifeboat Institute (RNLI) flag flying at half-mast while we took in the undisturbed scene of the boathouse and slipway from […]

I was taken by the simplicity of how Geoffrey Prout describes rigs in his “Brown’s Pocket-Book for Yachtsmen” that I have been very kindly leant a copy of. To share it with you (and the wonderful hand drawn diagram to explain the main types of rig) I have included what he says below. ‘Fore-and-aft-rigged vessels […]

I was recently loaned a copy of a wonderful book in the form of a reprint from 1943…. It’s a fascinating historical document that shows both areas of significant change on the water and aspects of sailing that haven’t altered at all. A quick search online shows the first edition to have been published in […]

It is with relief that the news of a yacht that found herself in difficulties off the Lizard (Cornwall’s most southerly headland) last Thursday was rescued by the RNLI’s Lizard Tamar Class Lifeboat ‘Rose’ in 4m swell and near gale force winds. It is understood that the yacht rescued (the 33ft Golden Morn) had developed engine […]