Bursledon Blog

While wishing everyone best wishes for the new year, I'd like to mention a few of my fellow bloggers who have encouraged me during the l...

Despite gift wrapping, the local motor boat dealer doesn't appear to have sold this 48 foot cruiser in the run up to Christmas. Maybe i...

What a fantastic morning, a light frost and the prospect of clear skyes to come, early on there was still that hint of pink in the morning h...

One of the great English sailors Mike Richey sadly died on 22nd December aged 92. Mike took up ocean racing in the 1950's, but is perha...

I've always liked the Tofinou boats built by Latitude 42 in France, but this one is my favorite, a 9.5 meter Tofinou designed by Phill...

December 22nd 1997 S/Y Blue Clipper Erica had baked some flapjacks, thinking that they would be a treat during our last two nights at sea. T...

December 21st 1997 S/Y Blue Clipper Our daily plot, showed we had just over 200Nm to go to Barbados, as a check I put a waypoint into the GP...