The vast quantities of plastic sailors and swimmers observe in the sea could be a thing of the past if inventions such as the 'Seabin' that is being trialed by MDL Marinas and Land Rover BAR succeed. "After designing and installing the Solent Oyster refuge...
You don't need to be sailors to know it’s becoming increasingly obvious that we need to be more vocal about how the ocean is treated by humanity. Far too many of us have seen the rise of plastic waste on the seas, shores and harbours. To help us better...
Combining ancient sailing knowledge with cutting-edge technology, the Norwegian-based company Tidal Sails AS have developed an ingenious way to extract kinetic energy from the tides to produce the lowest cost electricity in the entire market. Formed in 2004,...
Here’s a blog from our principal Charlie Tulloch who shares his first time experience sailing the Bay of Biscay. This summer I crossed the Bay of Biscay. On a Brittany Ferry. It was a very calm crossing and very flat. Had I been on a yacht there was just enough...
You’ve done a Day Skipper Theory course and you’ve followed it up with a Day Skipper Practical. You’re ready to do away with an instructor and go and charter a yacht in the Med. Perhaps you’ve already been chartering for a couple of years. So why bother taking...
How did you get into sailing? For many it is the family, others school or scouts, but for some people of a certain age it would have been Howards' Way, a BBC TV series set on the south coast, that brought to life the ins and outs of sailing - from the boatyard...
The main reason most people take a Day Skipper Shorebased theory course is because they are interested in sailing or motor boating and want to know more about how to navigate when on board. Many people that have never sailed before choose to do it as a starting...
The Yachtmaster Theory or to call it by it’s proper name the Coastal Skipper/Yachtmaster Offshore Shorebased course has changed... Actually, the course syllabus for the Yachtmaster Theory course has stayed the same. It is the way you are tested and examined...