Captain JP's log

I wanted to like this book. It was, after all, about plucky British lads sailing of to the southern seas in search of buried treasure. And ...

It might well be that Autumn is, as Keats put it, the " Season of mists " but this morning was spectacularly misty. It seemed to ...

I have this annual Antigua week ritual. Ok so far its only been two years in a row but that's still more years than Alinghi claimed was...

Feeling a bit smashed this evening after a weekend paddling and sailing on the Thames (maybe should say in the river given the ducking we g...

Adam has been treating us every Friday with a music video, often from the classics from the seventies and eighties when as we all know ther...

To celebrate the Internet's first Robin Knox-Johnston day here are three reasons to give the chap three cheers. 1. For being "Dist...

Ok, maybe a bit of a drama queen of a title, but its a long post and there's no pictures, so had to do something. Maybe you should get a...

Couldn't help but note this very sad story in the papers this weekend, of a six year old British boy who was killed in a light aircraft...

Thanks for all the suggestions and ideas about how to naturally navigate from trees in spring time - here's how I started thinking about...

For the natural navigators working on the picture puzzle posted previously, here is a photo clue. Taken around the same time as the other ph...

A picture puzzle for you natural navigators out there. This picture shows spring coming to one of London's parks, but can you work out ...

So you're a terror of the seas, heading out onto the ocean seeking adventure, barrel loads of gold coins and for your pockets to be heav...

The freedom to travel the high seas unhindered is one of the cornerstones of the maritime industry, commercial and leisure. The recent rise ...

On the Devizes to Westminster web site was interested to read a history of that race (which you can find here ) and in particular how it was...

While was very impressed by the stamina, strength, and will power of those doing the DW did have a serious concern about some of their light...

Happy Easter everyone! Hope you all had a nice relaxing break - I certainly did (still am actually). However there were several hundred for ...

Oh no! Not another! This is the waterfall on the far left hand side of the original picture, the one we went behind all the way across.

Ok, I knew when typing "one last post" that it wasn't likely to be completely the last on Venezuela but not that would be unab...

Ok, one last post on Venezuela. The picture above is from the Laguna de Canaima, just to the north west of Angel Falls. A series of spectacu...

Slightly lost for words to go with this picture. I mean, what can you say about a legendary waterfall, deep within Venezuela's jungles, ...