Captain JP's log

This year there isn't going to be any London Boat Show , neither in December (in Earl's Court) or January (in Excel). Apparently ...

Last weekend was the Classic Boat Festival 2018 at St. Katharine Docks, London . I'd been there before not just once but a couple o...

So how did I end up going round Spitsbergen? Well to a degree it was down to a chance meeting at the Southampton Boat Show. I'd g...

Also at London on Water I met up with  Paul and Sheryl Shard who are the Canadian couple behind the TV / Vimeo / YouTube show Distant S...

Also at London on Water and much more enjoyable and running a lot smoother was the talk by Henry from Kraken Travel about a trip to Nor...

The first of the talks at London on Water turned out to be one that I'd already seen and heard before at the Cruising Association 1...

Over the weekend there was a boat show called London on Water in St. Katharine Docks. I'd been to the one last year and been slightl...

There comes a time when you've heard all the talks, checked out the interesting new boats, browsed the boat show and had a bite t...

There're always some off topic stands at the London Boat Show. For some reason many are basically the sort of thing you'd see a...

At a boat show you expect to see... well... boats, though for some reason other vehicles seem to creep in. The amphibious car (above) d...

At the London Boat show saw another of those cross-ocean rowing team expeditions things. I know its all for a good cause (*) and terribly...

A couple of years ago I went to a talk by Skip Novak at the Southampton Boat Show (as blogged here ). Afterwards wandered around lookin...

I used to go round the boat show visiting the yachts on display and imagining sailing away in them. But now there aren't that many bo...

I'd met Emma Bamford at last year's boat show and bought her two books about her cruising life,  Casting Off & Untie the Lin...

I arrived particularly early for the Legends sailing talk with Tracy Edwards and Sam Davies (above) and that was just as well as it was r...

My chat with Conrad Humphreys touched on navigation techniques but later there was to be a whole talk about it from Pete "Stokey...

Last year Channel 4 broadcast a programme called "Mutiny" in which they re-created the voyage of Captain Bligh after the Mutiny...

 Spent yesterday wandering around the London Boat Show in between listening to various talks. More pics and stories to come but of cours...

There's something about classic boats that brings out oodles of character, which was on display all around St. Katharine Dock. Dogs ...