Messing About In Sailboats

Sailing Photo Of The Day - Mevagissey: A Cornish Fishing Town

Mevagissey: A Cornish Fishing Town, originally uploaded by Roger's Photos59. I love Cornwall. It's lost in time. Read more →

Sailing Photo Of The Day - Fun in Key West

c/o of Sailing Anarchy. Thanks to Edward for sharing. Read more →

Sailing Photos from Key West

Fantastic collection of photos from Key West on Scuttlebutt. Read more →

Deep Water - The Movie

This year marks the 40th anniversary of the start of Sunday Times Golden Globe Race. The winner, Robin Knox Johnston was at sea for 313 days, becoming the first person to sail around the world single-handedly non-stop*. A documentary about the race came out last year. It didn't get widespread distribution in the US, so I bought it on Amazon. I would recommend it to anyone who loves sailing. Here is the trailer. It has great footage of RKJ, Moitessier and many of the other competitors. Although it does a great job of telling their story, the focus of the movie however, is Donald Crowhurst; a man who risked everything to compete - his business, his home and his family. Crowhurst was in over his head. He wasn't experienced enough, his boat was not ready and he barely left England in time. (Good post at Captain's JP's blog about his... Read more →

Saving The Planet, Week 4 - Spreading the Word

Despite Al Gore's best efforts, awareness of environmental issues is still too low and even among young adults it is not their biggest concern. In a recent Business Week article, the environment ranked 7th among issues that concern Gen Y'ers. If it isn't that big an issue to this generation, God help us. The other day I noticed a simple way to get the word out - email. More to the point every email I send. And let me tell you I send a lot of them. I probably send 300-400 a week at work. Some people still print out their emails. I have no idea why anyone would want to print any of my emails but in theory, if everyone of my emails was printed out, it could be a 500 sheet pack in a week and half. Over a year, that's a lot of trees. One of my... Read more →