Having sailed the Great Lakes I decided it was high time to deal with one of Soul Rebel’s niggles that had annoyed me since I bought the Chaparral 2550 SX motor cruiser in 2020: a substantial gouge in the gel coat on the port stern quarter,...
With the buzz of the successful and extraordinarily high-tech Artemis II lunar flyby mission this April, I can’t help reflecting on how monumentally low-tech those early crewed missions of the 1960s and 70s were. Famously, the Apollo 11...
Suddenly, a mile off Dungeness, there was a big bang and the engine just stopped; it felt like hitting a stone wall. We were now ‘anchored’ to a lobster pot line.” Gerard and Gina Versluis were sailing from Dunkirk to Eastbourne in their...
When we decided to rent out our house for a year to live aboard our 38-year-old HallbergRassy 352 in the UK, our primary concern was the prospect of being on the boat during winter months. I was also concerned about commuting to my part-time...
