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Barnabas’ 140th Birthday: Taking Stock(11/11/2021)I asked myself recently when sailing under reduced rig, with mizzen set as the standing lug and a tiny bit of threadbare tanned canvas hung tautly over the stern, ‘how…
Gordon Frickers: A Different Perspective(2/16/2021)Rob McDowell There are some joys to being ‘locked down’! For me, one of them is occasionally trolling the internet (as you do) for wooden boats… and on this instance,…
To Scilly on Barnabas, May 2016(1/23/2017)West Porth, Great Gannilly The first sail of the season in Barnabas is known as a shake-down voyage. It’s a euphemism that means finding out at sea the various things…
The Wind in Your Sails(1/21/2017)One of the things that most annoys people new to sailing is the apparently impenetrable mystery that surrounds the business of being propelled along by the wind. In order to…