WE DON’T OFTEN talk about heads around here, but Harrison Butler did. Quite a lot. T. Harrison Butler was the famous British naval archi...

IF YOU READ a lot of books about sailboats you will surely come across mention of a part of the boat called the truck. Quite often it’s i...

AUSTRALIANS cruising under sail have developed a well-earned reputation for contempt of authority. One lovely example I came across involv...

EVERY NOW AND THEN I come across someone who has never heard of Negley Farson. So I have to do my duty and educate them, as I have done wit...

ARE YOU A SAILOR who is happily agreeable to being overtaken? If so, you are a rare bird, for when another sailboat comes shimmying past it...

I SOMETIMES WONDER how yachts fit in with Darwin’s theory of evolution. I guess it’s fairly obvious that really bad yachts will sink and au...

I’VE MENTIONED this before, but I still don’t see enough flags flying on small boats these days. Hardly anyone even flies a burgee at the m...