The test results are in. I passed 2 out of 3 sections. Passed the navigational and the general questions, but failed the tides section. Luckily I can redo the ...
Winded Voyage Sailing
Episode 16 takes you into the realm of my sailing studies, The Science Of Sailing. Just a few more days left before my Swiss Maritime license exam, I do the ...
The wicked winches of the West, East, North and South. They're all around Galopin! There are 9 winches in total that needed a good service. This episode will ...
In Episode 13 (lucky 13), I went looking for spring sails and found a happy green egg. It was Easter weekend, so this little green dude was hanging around Port ...
More projects in the hands of pros for Galopin. The water heater gets replaced and the water circuit explained to me. As well as getting a liferaft and ...
The Man Who Loves Perkins is back. This time David guides us through a full tune-up of my Perkins 4108. He's incredibly thorough and demonstrates he is truly ...
In Episode 8, I let go of the life I've know for the past 15 years. It's a personal episode where you'll see where I lived and what I've done. Basically, I'm ...
In Episode 7, it was my first time alone on Galopin for a few days. You'll see that I took full advantage of my new little domain. The sound system was up and ...
So we've found a boat. A 1981 Jeanneau Sun Fizz 40. It looks great, feels right and the price is within budget. Next step is to have the boat inspected by a ...
Just about everybody at one point or another has had either the dream or the passing notion of getting on a boat sailing into the sunset. So why not follow an ...
This is the last in our series of films covering our 2014 holiday up the east coast of England. We had some miserable weather but also, ironically, on the ...
Sailing with the Foxwell Family
This film starts with us leaving the river Deben however it didn't all go to plan. Pintail actually went aground and after getting herself off found she then ...
I expect the forecast of F5-F8 and freezing rain !! had kept people away but a few hardy souls turned up for race 1 of the Wilsonian Dinghy club 2015 warm up ...
So this is part one of our summer cruise up the east coast of england. Starting from our home in the Medway we made our way up the coast to Shotley marina at ...
This short film shows izzys first sail now in her new boat. Its a Jack Holt designed Bumblebee dinghy, a nice simple dinghy with a slightly unusual rig. The ...
This was to be the first proper sail in our new boat and was a pretty uneventful weekend apart from at the beginning, where a problem with the starter relay ...
In this film we show you a bit of our sail, well motor! back from the river Orwell, down the English East coast to White Magics new home on the River Medway. ...
Following on from the first film that we did about White Magic we thought we would upload some more clips showing you a little more of the detail. Today... ...
This is a short film that shows our year with White Magic, a Jeanneau Sun Fast 32i sailing yacht. The story began at the start of the year when we sold our ...
Yachting World video showing our test of the Jeanneau's new flagship, the Jeanneau 64 – a fusion of production boat and large luxury yacht. The full report is ...
Yachting World
Jeanneau's new Sun Fast 3600 is aimed at the growing shorthanded racing market but also those who wish to sail fully crewed. Matthew Sheahan tests the boat to ...