Wiblog - Paul's Wibblings

Lifeboat Crews are Amazing

09/12/11

It's thirty years ago next week since two memorable rescues in hurricane conditions by RNLI crews. One, by the St Peter Port lifeboat, resulted in 29 people being rescued from the cargo vessel Bonita. The other, sadly, resulted in the loss of crew of both the Penlee lifeboat and the Union Star, the ship it had set out to help. read more ...

A Wasted Day

23/02/11

I took the train down to Chichester today to take a look at Concerto, another Westerly Konsort. She looked fairly promising on paper - decent electronics, heating, lazy jacks: the sort of thing I wanted to add to any boat I bought. But it didn't go well. read more ...

No Boat

17/02/11

So sadly I'm not buying Katy Ann, the Westerly Konsort I put in an offer on about a month ago now. It's a long story but essentially the survey uncovered a long list of issues ... read more ...

Your Content, Their Server

01/02/11

I've been seeing mutterings around the Net for a while now about the perils of putting your content on other people's servers. Of course user generated content was one of the core concepts of the whole Web 2.0 thaang. Now the chickens are coming home to roost. read more ...

A Holding Pattern

28/01/11

Buying a boat seems to be strangely like buying a house in that, having decided which boat to buy and had your offer accepted ... it all grinds to a halt. ... read more ...

Katy Ann of Oare

19/01/11

So the stressful thing that happened on Monday was that I spent some time discussing with the broker whether I could buy Katy Ann, the Westerly Konsort that Hugo and I went to see on Saturday... read more ...

Boat Hunting

15/01/11

It's now been eight whole days since my last ~~confession~~ migraine so today seemed like a good time to start boat hunting again and Hugo and I went over to Ipswich to look at a couple. Well that was the plan ... read more ...

Magazines not Getting It

04/12/10

I'm busy reading several years' back issues of Practical Boat Owner at the moment (thanks Hugo) and was thinking I should take out a subscription. As well as offering it in dead tree format it's available digitally for you to download. Wow, I thought, that would be cool. Except it's not. read more ...