Captain JP's log

A shout-out for two sets of sailors met at the Delos meetup back in February . First up there's the Drug Boat Dreams otherwise know...

Rather than taking stills, this Boat Race decided to shoot only video and put the result on YouTube, as can be seen above. Must admit ca...

Spring seems slow in coming this year but one sign of it is already here, namely the Oxford - Cambridge University Boat Race . Traditio...

 

Blighty is currently being hit by another cold snap, a few weeks after the last one which was dubbed by the media "the beast from th...

There's been a lot in the media about the sad news of the death of Stephen Hawking and it made me remember my old Cambridge days. ...

There were no swimmers with polar bear blood to be seen trying out the steps down into Lake Geneva above, and none climbing onto the bask...

The boats in the previous post were not the only things covered in ice in Geneva down by the lake. According to Wikipedia, Lake Geneva...

I've been off in Geneva again, struggling with a cold and the cold, rather than posting. It really was rather chilly, and the wind ...

At the Delos tribe meet-up last week had a chance to catch-up with Lisa and Liz and what they've been doing post Delos. Turned out ...

I've blogged before about the band Wild Beasts but this is for the last time as yesterday evening they had their final gig in the H...

I've loved watching those SV Delos videos and when the call came out on FB that there was a Delos tribe meet up I had to go. Londo...

I got this for Christmas and finished it within 2 days. But then I am a bit of a S&A buff. This book looks at the series of novels...

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...