Sailing on Stockton Lake, Missouri – John was kind enough to invite me sailing again. Video: 2 minutes & 10 pictures
August 17, 2015
Sailing
June 29, 2015
Sailing with John on Stockton Lake – John invited me to join him for his first sail of the season. The end of June sounds a bit late for getting in the first sail, but John said that the horrendously wet and miserable weather we’ve been having this year had got in the way. 13 pictures
June 16, 2014
Watching The Weather – Vacation Day 12 – Tied up for the night. 2 pictures
June 16, 2014
Vacation Day 12 – We hired a sailboat in the vain hope of getting in some sailing. +3
September 3, 2013
Another day’s sailing on my friend John’s sailboat – only this time instead of too much wind, we had too little. 5 pictures
August 26, 2013
Spent the day with cap’n John getting the boat ready for some real sailing – he has a mainsail. Unfortunately the ‘iron Topsail’ is currently broken, and beyond my knowledge to repair.
July 13, 2013
John asked if I fancied going sailing. He had to ask? That’s a given. Five-minute read, +13
July 13, 2013
I really like this series of pictures of John I took while we out sailing yesterday. 3 pictures
June 24, 2013
Remember cap’n John? Well, he’s gone and done it now and bought himself a twenty-seven-foot sailboat. I went with him to Stockton to take a look. Pretty cool she is too. 19 pictures
June 1, 2013
Sailing with John on Stockton Lake -When my friend John said he wanted a sailing buddy to help him out on his first day sail in a keelboat without an instructor I jumped at the chance. Video: 1 minute. Five-minute read and 15 pictures
August 14, 1999
Sailing on the River Thurne, Norfolk Broads. This could be August 1999. It could be 2000, or later…
May 13, 1960
They Built Their Own Yacht – Packed away in a box under the bed I found this newspaper cutting from 1960. It tells the story of how my father and a work colleague built their own yacht. I’ve also written about some of my early sailing experiences, in particular a couple of attempts at drowning myself. Five-minute read, 5 pictures