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,…
Tag: sea
Navigating with Nature
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…
Sun, Sails and Sand
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.…
Moonbows and a Quantum Fogbow
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…
Sailing on a Friday
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…
Cats and Hats
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,…
Millennium Mist
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…
Big Boats and Little Boats
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…
Two Beaches for the Price of One
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…