Autumn to Winter Overnight

We’ve gone from mellow fruitfulness (the reds and golds of Autumn) to the inside of a polar bear’s boxer shorts … More

First Cruise of the Year…

…first of this year, that is, on which I encountered not a single other boat moving… Has Winter begun? The … More

I suspect ‘large dog’ and would hope ‘unaccompanied’ but I doubt the latter. There just aren’t any stray hounds in … More

We mooched on again the other day. Having re-traced our prop-wash up the Limpopo (known by the locals as the … More

My goodness me but the it of it is cold this morning. Opening the side-hatch to beat my chest and … More

The weather, that is. Solidly dill and dusmal, day after day, with a fair old wind gusting. The solar panels … More

The lead image is the current view from the side-hatch. Splendid stuff. Enjoyed a most splendid cruise the other morning. … More

I am a man of many parts, most of them broken or missing. Much has been happening in my little … More

Eilean Donan (not) sat sitting in the middle of Hurleston Reservoir’s ninety-six million gallons of fish-poop and seagull-pee. Ideal perhaps … More

Mentally, of insanity. Meteorologically, of Winter. Imagine if you will a great Warehouse of Weather in the sky. They’ve finished … More

We’ve scooted, we’ve mooched, we’ve comestibled and we’ve bunkered. We’ve also put the chimney back on. The it of It … More

One never really knows, does one? Not showing any obvious ID, systematically – and patently inartistically – photographing the boats … More