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A Passion for Sailing

This website is aimed at anyone with a passion for sailing boats. We have helpful articles around yacht maintenance and seamanship and a shop full of sailing goodies. You may be a lifelong sailor or a beginner – there is something here for everyone.

The shop is stocked with books to inform and inspire sailors of every persuasion, whether your thing is building clinker dinghies or sailing around the world, we have something for you.

We imagine you sail a modern GRP sailing cruiser – or aspire to do so – either through ownership or chartering. We teach sailing and seamanship through the Milebuilding Club for those who haven’t taken the boat-ownership plunge and who live within striking distance of the Solent. The club is a very cost-effective, non-intensive and proven route to all-round skippering competence.

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Marine Engines – Antifreeze Afloat

Marine Engines - Antifreeze afloat – all about marine cooling systems. Antifreeze used to be simple – you just mixed the lurid green stuff 50:50 with water and chucked it in. You changed it

Marine Engines – Raw Water Pump

Marine Engines - A short video on the raw water pump. The raw water pump is the most failure prone part of any marine engine. Raw water pump failure can result in failure of the engine throu...

Great Boat Books #1 – Born to Win

The most exciting boat book ever? Books written around boats and sailing can be many things, informative, inspiring perhaps, part of a broad education even, but they are rarely edge-of-the-seat exciting. This book about the 1983 America's cup is - it reads like a thriller.