SAILING

Over the years I have read various personal accounts of individuals sailing adventures, people basically messing about on boats and enjoy being on the water. I read intrepid voyages of individuals such as Joshua Slocum and Spray, Harry Pidgeon and…

When your sailing across oceans in small boats travelling at an average speed of about 4/5 knots per hour which is about 6 mph you can actually comprehend the vastness of them. 70% of the earth surface is covered in…

I met Sean recently at the Walton & Frinton Yacht club after a sailing trip I did up the river Orwell. Sean was sitting in corner of the bar having a beer on his own. I got chatting to him…

When I left the army in 1979 I went to the Under Water Training Centre at Fort William on the shores of Loch Linnie. At that time the government sponsored individuals to train as commercial air divers for underwater construction…

I was watching the U.K. Met office forecast especially on temperatures and July’s temperature records are and will be broken as the hottest temperature in July on record ever! That’s quite a sobering situation as the whole of Europe is…

There has been lots of news and press releases of the first moon landing of 50 years ago. Its something I remember clearly to this day TV footage at home was on black & white caythode-ray tube televisions of that…

Carbon has an atomic structure of 6 protons plus 6 neutrons and 6 electrons having an atomic mass of 12. Carbon is 15th most abundant element in the Earths crust and the forth most abundant in the universe by mass.…