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We slip back easily into ‘Preparing to set sail’ mode - engine on, depth and wind instruments switched on, plus the chartplotter and radio –...

There can be few other signs that shout ‘Spring!’ more loudly than the unfurling of leaf buds and tree flowers, the creases all falling out ...

The bottom scraping is now complete and fresh antifouling paint applied. (In reality all that has occurred is an exchange of layers of costl...

Complex travel arrangements are made so that our son Mike can join us in Edinburgh where we all get to see and hear The Albion Band perform...

Progress on scraping blue paint from Cirrus’ bottom continues slowly and tiresomely, the job being made less pleasant by a fine rain which s...

A year ago on 19th March, Kate and I moved into a house in the remote village that is Carradale, a place previously unknown to us, in a coun...

We have been on another of our walks (it only takes a bit of sunshine to get us out), this one to a viewpoint just above the snowline from w...

The other morning I arose early to try to bag a nice sunrise photograph. What I had in mind was to catch the sun just as it rose above the I...