It’s your time to shine. Everything you have learned thus far will now be put to the test. It’s game time and you best be at you’re A game. The boat is in your hands; you’re in charge and the...
A sudden marked increase in wind speed often bringing rain or low lying cloud cover, they are the spookiest part of sailing in the tropics where the temperature of the sea creates massive amounts of moisture in the local atmosphere...
Leaning over the coach roof and looking out at Englishman’s Bay, I ran through the calculations for the umpteenth time. I had planned to do the trip in 3 legs, the last of which, having no possible stops in between,...
The wonderful thing about being a delivery skipper - besides having hours to spend fruitlessly contemplating the meaning of life while looking up at the stars, and never having to buy fish - is that when civilisation starts feeling like...
There are many factors to consider when buying a sailboat. The experienced sailor and previous boat owner would have more hands on experience to draw on, and therefore would lean towards certain designs they are familiar with, but for the...