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Plastic Free July?
‘The conservationist’s most Important task, if we are to save the earth, is to educate.’Peter Scott, founder chairman of the World Wildlife Federation, quoted in the Sunday Telegraph, November 6, 1986...
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Those Who Live in Glass Houses…
“Will you walk a little faster?” said a whiting to a snail,“There’s a porpoise close behind us, and he’s treading on my tail!See how eagerly the lobsters and the turtles all advance:They are waiting...
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A Drop of Dihydrogen Monoxide With Your Whisky?
‘Thousands have lived without love, not one without water.’W. H. Auden, ‘First Things First’ (1956) The Western Cape’s weather patterns seem to have reverted to some form of normality, after a period...
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Figureheads Required; No Experience Necessary
“Weel done, Cutty Sark!”Robert Burns; Tam O’ Shanter 1790 Esperance, or more correctly, espérance, is a French word that rolls easily off the anglophone tongue. It is one of two words in French that...
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All Hands on Deck!
‘She walks the waters like a thing of life,And seems to dare the elements to strife.’Lord Byron, The Corsair (1814) Messing about in boats. An activity that has grasped men and women’s attention since...
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Summer’s Here, and the Time is Right…
‘I want to play cricket on the green,Ride my bike across the stream…’‘I’m a boy’: Pete Townsend, The Who: 1966 As we greet November here in Cape Town, we welcome the return of the summer months:...
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Sails Pitch
‘for whatever we lose (like a you or a me)it’s always ourselves we find in the sea.’ E. E. Cummings, 95 Poems (1958) Waterfront Charters have seven vessels in their fleet, allowing us to put together...
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If it Looks Like a Duck, and Floats Like a Duck…it’s a RIB
‘Once more upon the waters! yet once more!And the waves bound beneath me as a steedThat knows his rider.’ Lord Byron, Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage, 1816 Any person who has looked at the history of boats...
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If it Looks Like a Duck, and Floats Like a Duck…it’s a RIB
‘Once more upon the waters! yet once more!And the waves bound beneath me as a steedThat knows his rider.’ Lord Byron, Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage, 1816 Any person who has looked at the history of boats...
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Around the World in…Oh, About 270 Days
‘Once more upon the waters! yet once more!And the waves bound beneath me as a steedThat knows his rider.’ Lord Byron, Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage, 1816 Over its long history as a notable world port,...
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