Sail with New Freebooters

New technologies often lead to developments that weren’t foreseen in their early days. One that is becoming more and more common with the growth of the Internet and mobile phone networks is  ‘community-sourcing’, where groups with a common interest pool information for the common good in much the same way as Open Source programmers do [...]

I’m not going to repeat all  the hype that surrounded Jessica’s return. It was to be expected, and she handled it very well. Her sponsors will be pleased, and she has shown that she’s  not just (!) a very competent solo ocean sailor.
Here’s to a long and successful public and private life for Jessica!

It sounds to me as if the Dutch courts have more sense than I would expect to be shown by UK or US courts. I’ve just been reading Laura Dekker’s blog about her preparations to sail alone around the world, starting this summer. Most of it is about her new 38 foot Jeanneau GinFizz ketch, [...]

I’m sorry I’ll miss most of the 21st century. It could be interesting. I’m enjoying the headlong growth in conectivity and bandwidth - which is spreading to the mobile phone networks in parallel with the Internet -  but transport is changing, too. We’re already seeing serious attempts at producing electric cars, but it’s bulk transport [...]

Maybe I’m growing up at last. I’ve decided to try to create something useful, rather than amusing myself commenting on the boating scene whenever the fancy takes me.

lookat-harbours.co.uk was born today, 24 Feb 2010.
Who is lookat-harbours.co.uk for?
Both yachtsmen and landlubbers visiting the towns and villages close to yachting harbours in the British Isles.
What will it [...]