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 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 [...]

I first heard of  Greg from Rick Willoughby, who has been a major technical contributor to Greg’s attempts on human-powered boat records. In those days, Greg was planning to pedal across the Atlantic alone - but gave up because of bureaucratic hassle over permission to land in Europe. I can’t remember hearing of early sailors [...]

I have to believe that professional yachtsmen don’t get seasick under anything but extreme conditions, and I’ve sailed with people who quite happily went below when we had three reefs in, and fried the mackerel we had just caught.
I’m unlucky. I even felt twinges of nausea once in a dinghy - in zero wind and [...]