#96 | Questions & Tangents 12 | Over-riding Turns, Poor Winch Placememt & Finding Warm Gloves for Sailing
In this episode we discuss Youtube viewer questions relating to: 1. Over rides on winches, how do they happen, how to avoid them and how to deal with them when they appear anyways. 2. Operating winche...
13 Feb 202456min
#95 | Safety at Sea | Part 10 | Abandoning Ship 3
Continuing with the lunchtime recording sessions (while my two year old is having his nap (!), this time we are looking at what happens after you have made the decision to leave the vessel due to fire...
11 Feb 202455min
#94 | Safety at Sea | Part 9 | Abandoning Ship 2
In this episode we continue the brilliant RYA Sea Survival Handbook by Keith Colwell This time we are looking at Abandoning Ship!, words that should drive an icy spear into any good skippers heart! Th...
8 Feb 20241h 22min
#93 | Safety at Sea | Stepping UP into the Life Raft
This time we are looking at Abandoning Ship!, words that should drive an icy spear into any good skippers heart! This section of the book will take a few days to cover and I am doing this while snowed...
7 Feb 20241h 12min
#92 | Questions & Tangents 11 | The 1974 'Orgy of Destruction on Barnstaple Beach'
Questions and Tangents ! As always I get to talk about kinda whatever I want in these episodes, and this week it's a newspaper article from 1974 that's got me excited- I think when you hear about 'The...
27 Jan 202438min
#91 | Safety at Sea | Part 7 | The Psychology of Survival
This episode we continue reviewing the excellent, RYA Sea Survival Handbook by Keith Colwell with a look at the psychological tactics that must be employed to get you past circumstances that may be li...
14 Jan 20241h 14min
#90 | ABC of Sailing | I is for Information Availability at Sea
Continuing the ABC of basic sailing concepts series, I take a look in this episode at the modern revolution in information collection, exchange and processing on board the modern yacht. So, step away...
5 Jan 20241h 14min
#89 | Global Solo Challenge | Intro to the racers already on the water.
This episode is the first I am going to do about the Global Solo Challenge Race that I intend to join in early December. I'm still a little way off on the last funding to get the project over the sta...
12 Okt 20231h 24min
