This lovely skiff was parked outside Nick Gates's workshop when I visited Emsworth Yacht Harbour yesterday in the hope that sliding...

I have been re-learning the crossword. Things have changed quite a bit since I last did it regularly. Much less knowledge of the classics or...

I was brought up at the Low end of the Church of England, but in those days the Low Church did not mean rock bands and light shows but a r...

In 1939 the wood engraver, printer and naturalist Robert Gibbings found himself locked out of the second world war on the very understanda...

Went sailing again on Saturday, with fellow Dinghy Cruising Association and Home Built Boat Rally members Graham Neal, Paul Hadley and Chris...

Went to Beale Park Boat Show on Saturday and got to row David Evans's Atlantic Beachboat, a sail and oar craft I have mentioned before. ...

Apologies for another picture of me, but I just like it. A lovely composition by Lorraine Grant of Solent galley Bembridge heading back down...