When you don’t have the disposable funds to pay people such as a sailmaker to fix your sails, the only option is to do it yourself. The great thing that I’ve found with not having much money to spare is that you get to learn loads of even more valuable new...

Just as the sun was beginning to set yesterday, I received a message that hit me like a ton of bricks. South Africa and the rest of the world had lost a great man, a great shining light, a legend of immeasurable capacity and one of the greatest inspirations of my...

In sailing there are many times you drop your anchor where it doesn’t hold, it begins to drag and you begin to slip backwards. Then you need to anchor up and reset it until it bites into the seabed and gives you good holding. It’s something you get quite used to...

It was a somewhat eventful day on Rose Rambler yesterday when some guy had a not so bright idea which was promptly met with the wrath of a raging South African. A beautiful calm and relaxed Sunday afternoon went from a low rpm idle to 19000 rpm in 3 seconds flat...

I try to live by the saying that, “the only way through it... Is through it.” Don’t you find that when life wants to teach us something, it presents it with a challenge or task, and sometimes it may seem difficult or not something you want to face head-on? So we...