The title does not reflect what I am thinking now but it is the closest simple description I have found.   Many groups, societies and well ment people make it possible that trainees can join workshops or join the crew onboard to learn the “real things” of the nautical careers they chose. I am picking […]

My connection with Greece started in 1983, when I was skipper (captain) of a Dutch 12m sailing boat, taking groups of small boats on a two-week round tour to the south of Peloponnesus. I recognized characteristics of the Greek idiosyncrasy with those of ours in Argentina: the welcoming attitude, the permanent moaning about the state […]

One’s rights finish where another’s rights start. No doubt exists that Extinction Rebellion protested at The Superyacht Forum in a civilized way, with the organizers being intelligent enough to bring the protesters on stage at the conference to share their views.  But what Extinction Rebellion preach is a utopia focused on an apparently easy target. […]

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 experience was short-lived on land, […]

It was, for many of us taking our first steps in sailing, the price to pay if we wanted to earn the right to peek overboard, to act as counterweight, or be assigned the responsibility of tending a jib sheet.  Different dinghies would carry tins, plastic containers, even square ones, and the novice sailor duty […]

We as an industry have for long been guilty of not analysing or forecasting in a unified manner. The western world learnt the lesson the hard way and has started to adopt strategic alliances to reduce the possibility of being caught empty-handed by an uncontrollable situation and having to fend off disaster alone.   This […]