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Phil Webb and I were in Cherbourg a week or so ago doing research for the Annual visit. We can wholheartedly recommend a restaurant called "Le Faitout". From La Place de la Liberation with your back to the marine turn left passing the "Beer Bar" to your right. One hundred metres along on your...

I've just checked the results from the Pre-Olympic Regatta. Britain scored 4 Golds; 2 Silvers and 2 Bronze medals out of 14 classes.What anj amazing result. Does this make the National News? I think not. I know this isn't a racing forum but these are great results.

What got posters into this crazy, exhilerating, exhausting, quiet, relaxed sport? My mother, who hates sailing, read all the Arthur Ransome books to me as a kid. Then my dad, who had never sailed before in his life, signed up with a dinghy sailing school that used Cherubs as its basic trainer...

Does anyone know where Alan Gurney, designer of Crusade, Windward Passage, GBII etc. now lives?

Hi guys, Thanks to all your help with his research "roguerose" researched his story for the Mail. Then he gave the research to the talentless David Thomas to write.

Anyone out there doing the Fastnet and need an extra crewman? I was doing the race with a commercial organisation, but they told their insurers that I was taking pills for my BP and the insurers said NO. Actually my BP is 148/91 and my doctor is totally behind my doing the race. I've done...

I was all set up with a professional Fastnet operation. Then they reported me to their insurers on the basis of high blood pressure! Now it looks like I'm off the boat becuase I'm taking pills for High BP. Any skipper out there need a crew for the Fastnet? My high BP is 162/107. I've helmed a...

Pupils \"do worse with computers\" " German researchers are presenting a paper to the Royal Economic Society with this conclusion" (Grauniad). Does Scuttlebut agree? But having 500+ books gives a positive result.

Apparently we're likely to equal or better last time's brilliant haul of medals. So how much coverage is the BBC planning - half hour uninterrupted coverage at the same peak-time each night? - odd half hours at unpredictable times of the early morning? - five minute slots interrupted by repeats...

Did anyone from the Hartlepool area buy their cigarettes or booze from the "floating off-licence" Rich Harvest before the vessel was seized by HM Customs. The legality, or otherwise, of HM Customs' action will be decided in court <hr width=100% size=1>

... of mine hopes to find somewhere cheap on the Southern East Coast (Ramsgate to Woodbridge) to put a 10-metre yacht ashore for a season. Where's cheap (but secure) and where should be avoided? <hr width=100% size=1>

I'm chartering in the Caledonian Canal in a week's time. Has anyone any tips for places to see, navigational hazards (apart from anything flying a Blakes burgee or Union Jack, obviously) etc? I've already heard that the British Waterways guide is very good. <hr width=100% size=1>

\"Adventure\" Information As ybw readers will know, the UK Navy recently gave the sail training and former Whitbread RTW Race yacht "Adventure" to the Russians. Can anyone help Dmitri Zaritski with his search for further information? >>>>>> Dear Sir & Madam! My name is Dmitri Zaritski. I live...

Does anyone have any experience of these yachts? I've seen them in charter brochures, but can't recall seeing one in the flesh. Do they sail passably well? Is the accommodation adequate for 4/5? <hr width=100% size=1>

Does anyone know the current whereabouts of the yacht best known as "Great Britain II" (aka With Integrity, Norsk Data GB, United Friendly ...), called "Whitbread Heritage" the last time I saw her - 77 foot ex-Whitbread Maxi sloop. <hr width=100% size=1>

After a few happy and interesting years away from skippering yachts - crewing in races - I am returning to the role of skipper. What is the single most important aspect of being a skipper? Can forummers share their practical experience rather than the official RYA/ sailing school line which I...

Does anyone know the history of "Crusade" the Alan Gurney designed 63-footer that won line honours in the Sydney - Hobart in 1969 and should, on accurate timings, have won the Fastnet that year. I know she has been Wirral-owned in recent years and has just been sold.

Does anyone have any info on this 80-foot yacht, currently in Cardigan, which was apparently in an early Whitbread Race? Original name, for example.