If you like foiling boats and boards (which we do) then you’ll love this. It’s a custom built foiling skiff with no hull. It’s light and fast but needs a tow (a bit like a glider) to get going. And if the crew aren’t super brilliant and let the boat stall, it needs a tow…
Category Archives: Photo of the week
Sailing Cakes
Now I’m hungry! It’s 11am here in the UK so it’s time for the traditional ‘elevensies’. Nice cuppa and some sailing cake would be perfect. Sadly though this cake is from New Hampshire, USA rather than Hampshire, England (to which I can walk in 15 mins from my house in Berkshire). This cake is from…
Photo of the Week – Freezing Marina
The freeze is thankfully over in the UK (at least where I live). After 1 month of snow, ice and chaos, normality has returned to the roads. During this big freeze our house lost power twice and we spent days and nights frrrreeezing. I suspect we’d have been warmer on board a boat with just…
Photo of the Week 7
A great photo of a Frigate docked in Portsmouth just before Christmas. HMS Iron Duke, returned home to Portsmouth following a six-month deployment to the Caribbean during which she made a record-breaking drugs seizure. The Type 23 frigate discovered 5.5 tonnes of pure cocaine with an estimated UK value of ¬£240m in a converted fishing…
Photo of the Week 6
Here’s a great shot for you all at Christmas. We will be eating, drinking and being merry over the next few weeks, so no more posts until 2010. See you all then and have a great holiday season. A Turkish bulk carrier is seen half sunk near Sukhumi, capital of the breakaway Georgion region of…
Photo of the Week 5
There’s something about New England. Maybe it’s because it reminds me of home. The scenery and coast line are so similar to those of England in so many ways and often I’ve seen a photo of some harbour (or I should say harbor as ‘Harbor’ is clearly the New ‘Harbour’ in ‘New England’) and thought…
Photo of the Week 4
I wish I were technically proficient enough to sail one of these. They look fantastic. Unfortunately, being middle aged and of large frame, I’m not quick enough to trim the balance in the gusts and lulls and in any case my balance isn’t great (maybe something to do with the pre-race ‘snifters’ in the bar?)….
Photo of the Week 3
Will it ever stop raining? Carrick is almost isolated by swollen River Shannon In what should have been a very busy period for the county town in the run up to Christmas, the almost isolated and cut off Carrick-on-Shannon has been left a partly submerged ghost town for nearly a week. One local even made…
Photo of the week 2
Originally posted on Flickr by Stannesman Is this the strongest dog in the world? Really looks like the dog is marching on with the distressed Riverdance on it’s back AND is having to drag miss ‘pretty-pink-boots’ too.
Photo of the week 1
Originally posted to Flickr by ‘Tambako the Jaguar’ (good name!). I love wood on a boat – the shiny varnish – the beautiful teak deck. But I wouldn’t have a wooden yacht though. I owned a wooden Mirror dinghy once (called ‘Eat my shorts’ with a picture of Bart Simpson mooning on the side!) and…
