Yachting Like It Is

Right, well the contention is, at first glance anyway, easy on this one:  Is drinking a problem in Yachting?  Yes or no?  Should be pretty straightforward, there is always someone willing to blame alcohol for the evils of the world.  Let them state their case, get couple of quotes and then head to Waxy’s and [...]

Can management companies at both ends of the size spectrum offer an equally high standard of service and support to yachts.  Is it a David and Goliath story or is it the way of the ‘corner shop’ versus the major international supermarket chain?

Regulation and Safety are two words often juxtaposed in the modern business of [...]

This years’ Caribbean season is largely over and as it is confined to the annals of yachting history I am concerned that the it will soon be out of sight and out of mind.  There were a number of injuries, accidents and even a fatality during the season that should give us cause for concern [...]

Love or lust, the two can be easily confused.  They are the basis for the themes of a million songs and unquestionably, they contribute to the collective inspiration of every generation of poet and writer alike.  From the sonnets of the Bard to the whimsical fancy of the modern song writer, the experience of love [...]

Yachting has experienced, over the past decade or so, what amounts to a technical revolution.  The advance of technology with its ‘smaller, faster and ever more efficient systems has given us everything from black box navigation gear to high speed internet, global communications and even stabilization.  A good friend of mine recently took out his [...]

There are any number of possible health hazards that may affect those working on yachts.  And, unsurprisingly, there is no end of mechanisms that we can employ to combat them:  From wearing shoes to avoid foot injuries to observing defined ‘hours of rest’ in order to combat fatigue.  However very little these days is mentioned [...]

There can be no greater feeling of helplessness than watching a disaster unfold from position that renders it impossible to help.  Such have the last few days been for many who have watched the people of Haiti deal with a catastrophic earthquake from the distant and sometime guilty comfort of their television sets. 

For Haiti the [...]

In ancient Greek mythology, the human condition was determined to exist in three distinct status: Those who were dead, those who were alive and those who were “at sea”.  Such was the significance of the sea in the both the mythical and historical Greece.  Today much of the influence of ancient Greece can still be [...]

Another new year in St Barts gets off with a bang.  Two anchored yachts collide and through a series of pictures taken from a single perspective, a number of would-be Sherlock Holmes are revived from the dead to demonstrate an uncanny, almost instinctive ability to deduce fault and point the finger of blame. 

There are almost [...]

Just what are we expecting to happen in 2010?  I am sure we are bored of hearing what went wrong in 2009 so I wonder if making a few predictions for 2010 will prove more encouraging.  Well at least we can predict, with some degree of certainty, the tides.  After last year however, there will [...]