Sail with New Freebooters

From a distance, Maltese Falcon looks like a tea clipper from the days of Cutty Sark and Thermopylae. It’s only when you get closer that you notice that there’s no gap between the sails on each mast, that the yards are curved, and that her masts are unstayed.
She was built as a proof-of-concept for DynaRig, [...]

I’ve just received e-mail notification that the Prime Minister’s Office has responded to the petition that so many of you signed. Here is the link:
Military Hospital Petition Response
Use the comments section of this post to tell me what you think. My immediate take is that it does not address the claim that Selly Oak didn’t [...]

The past decade has seen a big increase in the number of very large yachts, with firms such as Perini Navi specialising in designing and building them.
One of the reasons for this is the advent of technological advances that make them easily handled by a very small number of people (Perini claim that one person [...]

Writing recently about berthing down tide in a tight space reminded me of John Robertson, a Hillhead man who sailed a Clyde 30 in the Solent and across the Channel (carefully - beating hard into a heavy chop risked opening the garboards around the mast step because her full-sectioned bows weren’t designed for that kind [...]