“Better than yesterday!” remarked one boater after another. “Been tied up here for two days,” said one, in what was probably a Rhodesian accent. Celebrate!...

Though frequently breezy and sometimes squally the force of the wind has been nowhere near as fierce as yesterday...

Decades ago, long before concerns about energy consumption, a fellow teacher passed on a tip: when the winds are..

A start tonight with two apologies – and a suitably manly bouquet of thanks for Techno Son-in-Law...

Thankfully today has been free both of adventure and misadventure. It’s been breezy, but we have known worse;...

No day is ever the same as the previous one; most days throw up something unusual or unexpected or...

Strictly speaking Cleddau is not out of Milton Keynes yet, despite a long day’s cruising. About a hundred...

Maybe it was because all the windows were closed up that it seemed as if the winds were finally dropping overnight. At daybreak...

To need to crawl up a slope in order to get out of bed means either that the crawler has a severe headache...

When is a nightmare not a nightmare? When real time events are happening in waking hours! Yesterday’s...

The first two locks of the day were shared with Mr and Mrs Naval Officer (Rtd), they heading for the Thames...

The plums were picked, the hedges trimmed, the indoors and outdoors plants watered – and we were set to go. Ten...

“Two boat trips in two days!” exclaimed the Cheshire One, as she stood on Cleddau on Saturday morning.  Bound...

Six of us were afloat on about 12 metres depth of sea water on a falling tide.  “Ssh, listen to your Captain.” Eyes and ears...

It was a reunion, this year in the lovely Georgian city of Bath, of “the Coven”, the name so cruelly given to our pack of six (four sisters, two cousins) by the...