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....

Li-Ion Battery Warning

Following the recent report of a fire on-board a yacht in Loano Marina, Italy which raises the possibility of battery charging as a potential cause, this article is issued to remind all yachts of the safety precautions to be adopted when charging Lithium-Ion...

The Language of the Clouds

They are generally considered impertinent. The welcomed white cloud, with the appearance of a cotton flake that sometimes shows itself in an early summer evening and allows us to alleviate the solar hammering that burns us, that is probably the only really welcome...