The great little skipper

At a fishing village in the Scottish firths, the youngest of the Barr brothers, from a known seafarer family, was born in 1864. His mother, afraid of losing all her children at sea, led him to learn a trade on land and got him a job as a greengrocer. Charlie’s...

Sunsail pulls out of Palma

Yacht charter company Sunsail, which has operated in Palma since 2013, has announced that it is closing down its base here because the mooring fees are far too expensive. The company has concluded that it is no longer financially viable to maintain its base in Palma....