The water cycle which creates are atmosphere is a constant recycling process. Water evaporates off the ocean surface and goes into the atmosphere as water vapour clouds form due to particulate in the atmosphere which creates nucleate initiation points, when…
We live on a planet that is covered with liquid water. With roughly 326 million cubic miles and it cover 72% of the earths surface the Oceans covers a water layer spanning 15,000 miles at average depth 2 miles. It…
We left Marina Di Olbia on Tuesday 16 at 9.30am. No wind calm seas headed out across the Tyrrhenian Sea to Italy and Isla Di Ponza. Sky was covered with a low grey cumulus cloud blotting out the sun and the…
I bought Barada with ocean sailing in mind and to undertake an Atlantic circuit from the UK to the Caribbean and back again. It was big undertaking and lot planning and forethought had to go into the project. For budding…
I had met Ted at Lymington Yacht Haven in 2004 when I went to view his boat on the hard standing when she was up for sale. Ted had owned Barada for over 30 years and sailed 50,000nm in her.…
One of the great wonders of the world is great seas and oceans. In fact as a scuba diver I’ve had the privileged to enter a liquid universe that’s absolutely teeming with life. For me the oceans are like…
Now you might be thinking what’s this long military story got to do with sailing? I would say everything and why? Because a few years later on general orders for 16 Independent Parachute brigade an ex parachute regiment Sergeant named…
You wouldn’t have thought there is a direct correlation between parachuting and sailing but there’s is, Why? The main atmospheric air goes up to the troposphere and the surrounding ground level air is held down by the above air mass.…