http://www.wileynautical.com Blog RSS Feed http://www.wileynautical.com/details/blog/1423633/ISAF_World_Sailing_Championships_Perth.html Well I have just returned from coaching at the ISAF World Sailing Championships at Perth, Australia, and it was certainly an interesting regatta and overall a very positive one with so many learning points to take forward to 2012. From here the only way is up. 2011-12-15T01:21:00Z http://www.wileynautical.com/details/blog/1419913/Christmas_Sails.html During our cruising years we experienced the Christmas season in the West Indies – Antigua and St Lucia, Gibraltar, Palma de Mallorca (Spain), Fort Lauderdale in Florida, Marathon in the Florida Keys and at sea en route to Nassau in the Bahamas... 2011-12-09T14:52:00Z http://www.wileynautical.com/details/blog/1411107/Fairytale_of_New_Yacht.html Are you celebrating your first Christmas on a yacht?  You can still do the important meals on a yacht - Sail Away author Nicola Rodriguez knows only too well...  2011-12-01T13:49:00Z http://www.wileynautical.com/details/blog/1407833/Another_Fishy_Tale_from_Paul_Knight.html A chapter in Amazing Fishing Stories has just had an amusing update worthy of inclusion in the original book... 2011-11-28T06:40:00Z http://www.wileynautical.com/details/blog/1393935/Sail_Melbourne.html They say that you can experience all four seasons in one day in Melbourne and that was certainly true. In the space of a couple of days we had flash flooding which saw the road completely disappear and the drains back up, to bright sunshine which meant I burnt my arms even with factor thirty suntan cream. I was so worried about getting burnt on my face I had so much lotion I looked like a ghost. We had some quite windy races and also winds so light I could see my reflection in the water, so I was surprised... 2011-11-12T21:58:00Z