(download) Click here to download: Gosford_Boathouse.zip (482 KB) Discovered this wonderful boathouse on an artificial lake at Gosford Estate in East Lothian. It's a big boathouse for such a small lake.

A gathering of Natural Change participants and facilitators took me to Inverie on Knoydart for a week recently. Knoydart is a peninsula in North West Scotland that is only accessible by sea - or on foot over the mountains. Introduced me to sleeping out in a bivvy...

Wonderful spring day today so I couldn't resist making the first sail of the year. A steady F3 from the west and a calm sea. Everything in the boat was as I'd left it last year and she was bone dry. I've been checking occassionally over the winter and the tarpaulin, over...

(download) Click here to download: watch-out-for-midget-submarines-arwjnqogJpqoECABngaa.zip (12.47 MB) Last month we went for a walk at Aberlady Bay, and as the tide was out wandered down to look at the remains of the...

First time on the water for far too long. With no wind and flat seas I took Selkie, my canoe, rather than Scratch. Quicker and easier to launch, no need for the quad bike and the portage trolley comes too. Yes, I row my canoe. A strange, calm, dampish, hazy day...

An imagination approach to tacking in heavy weather without a mizzen from Ben:http://theinvisibleworkshop.blogspot.com/2011/08/ssummer-cruise-part-6-sudden...

A couple of months ago I was invited to talk at Nights of Adventure to raise funds and awareness for Hope and Homes for Children. I was one of "an eclectic group of adventurous souls came together to give an evening of Pecha Kucha style talks". Each talk consists of...

Even if the wind is fitful and the weather changeable, it's good to be on the water. I launched late morning from Portobello beach and spent the day on the Firth of Forth, sailing, rowing and fishing. I'm in the early stages of getting to grips with video and...

I've known for long time I ought to practice capsizing, but I've never quite got around to it. On Sail Caledonia, the evening at Loch Oich is scheduled for capsize practice. After initial reluctance, in view of the cold weather, I decided it was too good an opportunity...