Bursledon Blog

But they did. Superstition has it that to change a boat's name invites bad luck, the logical explanation is that the ship's nam...

Growing up near the Thames we used to visit the locks at Bovney, Bray and Boulters and watch the boats going through. I can just remember in...

I got an email from fellow blogger and rower  Chris Partridge to say that the Langstone Cutters were bringing a Solent Galley over for a r...

If there is "anything, absolutely anything so much fun as messing around in boats" then it's surely teaching your kids to have...

I guess we would call them whaleboats, but the Dutch seem to have an affinity for these double ended, mostly open boats called collectively ...

Sure is, what a great name. Has the look of a Kim Holman design, that transom and stern hung rudder remind me of a Stella or Rustler 3...

It was a year ago that we found a new breakfast cafe, in fact it's been there for ages but only opens weekdays and Saturday mornings. Ha...