Captain JP's log

I've previously reviewed "Estuary" by Rachel Lichtenstein and had what is best described as a mixed response . One of the p...

I've been neglecting this little blog and I'm going to blame Game of Thrones . It's a topic where there are strong opinions...

If I can't go offshore sailing then at least I've a lot of great memories including: learning to sail in the Solent during t...

I had to cut short my sailing trip along the coast of Morocco due to illness and it wasn't the first time this had happened. Two trip...

The next day we arrived at Rabat. I'd been very much looking forward to arriving at Rabat as I'd been there before ( as blogged h...

After Tangier we headed south. There was enough wind to leave under sail, though it was rather weak and from the wrong direction. So in ...

We had a full day exploring Tangier , though it was shortened as we found there was a Cafe Paul in the marina which felt like an excellen...

Back to the Morocco sailing trip.... Can you still call it sailing if you motor most of the way? It was, alas, rather a calm day wh...

If you are interested in seabirds then I can not recommend Adam Nicolson's The Seabird's Cry highly enough. It is fascinating, r...

Following on from the blog post " Do you need full frame? " here is a short video of a bike ride in Richmond Park on New Year...

More adventures underground, this time visiting the Growing Underground farm in a WW2 bomb shelter in south London. I'd been down ...

The Bursledon Blog had a post about cameras and how much the tech is required which interested me as it's a topic I've been thin...

I'd visited to Cadiz before when sailing from Lisbon to Gibraltar, and it was great to explore this beautiful city again. Previously ...

I was to join the yacht in Cadiz, but there isn't an airport there, so you have to fly to one of the nearby cities and then takes a t...

Last month I was meant to sail from Cadiz down the coast of Morocco then across to Lanzarote, as in this route map: Alas the lurgy t...

Can you spot the fish this heron has caught? It was still wriggling! The numbers of birds out there suggest there are many other fish i...

Friday the 21st of December, the shortest day of the year, and I had arrived at Putney Pier for my first attempt at the Thames Clipper Ch...

So what route to take? It seemed obvious from the map above that the most efficient way would be to start at one of the two ends (Putney o...