Seamanship & Navigation, November 2021
Stories of repairs at sea always make for fascinating reading. Not the fairly routine substitution of a spare part but rather a failure so horrendous that great ingenuity was…
Seamanship & Navigation
Seamanship & Navigation, September 2021
Buoys have been used by mariners since the 1500s to guide them been past shoals and rocks, with early buoys being no more than large pieces of timber strapped together, topped with a marker, and anchored in position. Modern buoys…
Seamanship & Navigation, May 2021
Any sailor who ventures out on the ocean will very quickly find himself standing…
Seamanship & Navigation, March 2021
After a second reef is tied…
