Captain JP's log

Oh joy, look what came in the post today! Tristan's latest book, " How to read water ". Very much looking forward to reading...

Yesterday evening I went to a talk called " Arctic Forum " arranged by London's best ship's chandler, Arthur Beale . W...

Jimmy Cornell has had the impact on world cruising for which words like "legend" start being used. His World Cruising Routes i...

On Wednesday I managed to briefly escape work and headed east to the Cruising Association 's HQ in London's Limehouse Basin for a ...

My eye keeps getting drawn north. First I read Arctic Labyrinth all about the discovery of the NW passage, then I open up Yachting Mont...

It's the time of year when Tillerman has to dig himself out of his house and here in London we even had a 10 minute flurry of snow (th...

Electronic charts are great - I like them so much I must have bought Iceland about 3 times - for iPhone, iPad and iNavX. But they have...

On Thursday evening I went along to the central London ship chandler of Arthur Beale Ltd for a talk by Alasdair of the Sumara of Weymout...

Really interesting multi-media YouTube clip of an interview with high latitude sailor Willy Ker, famous for his single handed expeditions ...

It's been a manic work week here, hence the lack of posts, but all through today's lunch-time telecon I was itching to race to the...

G'day all! Buff Staysail here! Buff by name and Buff by nature! Well we're heading toward the weekend so no doubt you're loo...

In the post on Mingming's voyages up to the Arctic Circle I embedded one of the videos Roger took. It brought back many memories as we...

Now the evenings have well and truly drawn in, what better than a good article to read on the topics of sailing, navigation and the natura...

Back in July, just before the Olympics I posted this picture: It shows two examples of the colour of the water we saw when sailing t...

Before the Olympics takes over another quick post about the sail to the Arctic Circle. I've been asked about whether the water changed...

One of the good things about the route chosen was most of the way we didn't have to worry much about ice, which keeps within the East Gr...

We had a day spare before our flights back to the UK and felt like stretching our legs so took the short ferry from Reykjavik to the island ...

We really liked Reykjavik, though we didn't see much of it. I'd been before and Tristan wanted to return with his family later, so...

Its a good idea not to rely on a single source of navigational information. To sail to the Arctic Circle we had charts in paper form, plus...

It was rather cold at times so an important part of preparation was making sure we'd be able to keep warm, particularly as this partic...