Down here in deepest Devon the Rights of Spring are upon us. · we real at the smell of fresh antifouling in the Yard, · we avert our eyes...

So Pancake Day is over and Lent has started. Somehow that doesn't seem to mean much in the middle of lockdown 3. With abstinence and...

It would be nice to believe the Government knows what it is doing regarding summer holidays this year, both overseas and in Britain, but...

Sailing a commercial barge in the winter was a brutal life. Getting up before dawn onto frozen decks, washing them down with hand drawn...

January is always a thoughtful time. Looking back over the previous years achievements and planning for the year to come; before our...

We're back! With a great range of UK sailing holidays and yoga retreats for individuals and groups. We have re-opened our on-line booking...

In part 1 we went west, now to explore the east but first a cruise up our home river, the Dart. The Dart is not an estuary but a flooded...

Well this has been a year to remember for mostly all the wrong reasons and I fear a few more issues to come before the month is out. ...

Why do we keep posting pictures of food? Well cooking is a bit of an obsession with us and we are using our lock down time to explore...

We all too often look back with longing for simpler better times, imagining that life was somehow easier in the olden days. Much of the...

A new delivery of type 00 flour has arrived from Shipton Mill. So its time for more lockdown baking. The 00 is perfect for making...

Lockdown2-day7 and the vittles (aka crisps) are already running low. The cry goes out ‘ bake more cake ‘ ‘reinvigorate the sourdough...

We are often asked why we keep a Thames barge in Devon, 'surely they only worked around the Thames and East Anglia?' Well most did but...

It is always a sad day when we dry and pack away our sails and ropes at the end of the season but it is also a time to reflect and plan....

On Tuesday we set out early from Portland Harbour to round Portland Bill and cross Lyme Bay, back to our base in Dartmouth. The winds...

Last week, while I was occupied with the questionable pleasure of replacing the main waste maceration pump and then the raw (sea) water...

We have just got back from a wonderful cruise along the SW coast. While the wind gods were less than helpful we did manage to fit in;...

A few weeks ago, I promised to give the technical slant on the story of Snark. It is a bit involved and lengthy, but I will try to get it...

or the Staycation of a Lifetime Our ‘bubble buddy’ cruises are designed to help you escape from the stresses of the current crisis and...

Chapter 4 Fast forward to 2015 and Qiao and Paul, are looking for somewhere to live and run their architectural practice from. Whether...

So, the Speights now needed to find a lucrative use for the putative Thames barge that was sitting in splendour in their back garden and...

Chapter 2 So, having settled on a design, sourced some finance and found a build site, in 1997 the Speights; father David and son Nigel,...