john's blog

This is the day after last years conference in tropical Liverpool taken as I sailed seawards down the Mersey like a million mariners and emi...

The lower reaches of the Ribble cannot be described as pretty, the banks are a mixture of flat salt marsh, some WW2 concrete bunkers, and a ...

Boats are like babies, they need their bottoms cleaned occasionally. Not as often thank goodness, it is two years since my old lady has been...

Having at last found a signal for this device, I have to report that all my sailing plans are in tatters because last Tuesday I slipped on t...

I know I am in Scotland because the boat moored next to me is called "Whigmaleerie"! I have no idea what it means but it is unmist...

When I took this yesterday, I was slathering on the sunscreen and looking for my floppy hat, most unusual around here which is the entrance ...

I am in Ardrossan, Ayrshire, which is an appropriate place to quote Robert Burns "The best laid plans of mice and men gang aft aglay...