Wind, Water and Mr Bernoulli
The land’s wind shadow can be seen in the smooth water nearest the foreground of this picture of Nutbourne Marshes. This is an effect sailors,…
The land’s wind shadow can be seen in the smooth water nearest the foreground of this picture of Nutbourne Marshes. This is an effect sailors,…
One of the keys to navigating with nature is appreciating scale. It is vital that we do not spend too much time focusing too narrowly…
The Gooleys were out on the water this morning on our Contessa 32, Golden Eye. It was one of those spring days that exceeded expectations.…
Last night I stumbled across a name I have been looking for since a sailing trip a couple of months ago, when I took this…
This weekend I came afresh across the notion that setting sail on a Friday is bad luck. I had heard this before of course, but…
Those who have been on a course will know the strange pleasure that I get from connecting seemingly unrelated things through natural navigation, so here,…
On Sunday morning, when sailing off the south coast, visibility came down to a few hundred metres at times. The sun played some of its…
Last night I was fortunate enough to be invited aboard HMS Warrior to give the after dinner speech to the Contessa 32 Association End of…
There is something surreal, perhaps postmodern?, about blogging about a newspaper that is writing about you. Ian Belcher reviewed my course in the Sunday Times…