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.…
With my engineering background I applied to join the Corp of Royal Engineers. I enlisted in 1972 and was sent to Cove Farnborough at the No1 Training Regiment R.E. After around 16 weeks at Cove we had a visit from…
As a small boy I grew up in Wallasey near the River Mersey. I loved to climb at a rocky sandstone outcrop call the Breck. The Breck sits on a ridge 80 feet above sea level over looking Bidston hill and…
Sailing Boats 18 months ago I bought another sailing boat a Beneteau first 30 JK with plans to sell my NIC 32 Barada. Sometimes in life things don’t always work to plan. In a strange way sometimes that can be…