After the Boat Blessing yesterday I had an opportunity to try a Virus Yole , something I have wanted to do for a while, when Steve kindly le...

A day of blessings and cursings. Went to the Langstone Cutters' Boat Blessing service, and as we waited a huge GRP boat thing across the...

Nearly a year ago, Duncan in Melbourne wrote to enquire about plans for racing shells in wood . Now Kev writes from Melbourne to ask if Dunc...

Wandering round the website of the College of Arms for another purpose entirely, I discover that Lloyd Grossman has received a Grant of Arm...

By an amazing coincidence, boatbuilder and former railway manager Chris Perkins at Strathkanchris's Little World recognised the vista o...

Google Street View is proving to be a major time-waster. I've been wandering the country looking for boats on screen. Here is the Embank...

Isabella travels by boat from Funchal at 4 in the morning: "There lay our four-oared boat, into which all our traps were soon packed, a...