Bursledon Blog

Back in the Autumn of 1958 some local yachtsmen sat in the back bar of the Jolly Sailor pub in Bursledon and agreed to hold a race specifi...

Our local Bursledon Regatta takes place at the end of August (29th/30th). The regatta which celebrates it’s 139th year , starts on Saturday...

I’m sure many of you will have seen Dylan Winter’s “Keep Turning Left” series of video’s on youtube, which document his circumnavigation of...

For those of us with a wooden mast the annual ritual of touching up the varnish means either dropping the mast or working aloft from the bos...

It seems incredible that only a few weeks ago hail stones were falling so hard they were piling up in the cockpit as I passed this magnifice...

One of the good things about living close to the boatyard, is being able to take equipment off the boat and store it safely for the winter. ...

Well actually quite a lot. I was recently in discussion about a prize that is to be offered for the first “Yawl” to finish a race for tradi...