Arwen's meanderings

I keep having this internal debate in my head....it goes like this......m My dad, god bless him, would say " if a job is worth doing ...

A few weeks ago, I altered the rear cleat position for the mizzen sheet. I cut a mahogany block from some old scrap timber I had lying arou...

Showing welsford navigators and various other boats at  http://www.gaffrigsailinginwa.org/videos/  Enjoy Steve

It has one or two errors in it.....sorry. Still trying to get used to using iPad apps such as reel director. Also, I discovered from my log...

By now it was cloudy, chilly and a nasty wind was picking up. We turned to sail back down the Tamar. That fickle wind had moved due south ...

On the eastern shore, just before the bridges, is a small boat club and it was clearly a busy day. All the boats were being returned to th...

And my apologies. Using the iPad to post blogs has its bugs; one of which is that it doesn't like posting longer logs and the bogging s...

We glided past devil's point where I used to go conger fishing as a teaching student. I almost lost my life there once when a rath...

Finally, after what feels like an eternity, Arwen and I managed to make it out onto the water yesterday, accompanied by a very close frien...

Intheboatshed.net is a website run by Gavin about nautical things ...old boats and maritime heritage. It is an excellent website. I notice ...