Honest, practical guidance from a UK sailor — not affiliate-driven listicles.
A guide to the kinds of sailing YouTube channels worth your time — what each category teaches, how to use video as a learning tool, and the categories on this site that link to real channels.
Bryan McGuire · 4 min read · 4 May 2026
A practical buyer's checklist for first-time cruising yacht owners — covering budget reality, where to look, surveys, sea trials, and the closing-day mistakes that cost money.
Bryan McGuire · 5 min read · 4 May 2026
A practical guide to chartering a yacht in the Mediterranean — bareboat versus skippered, where to base, licensing, costs, and the practical details UK sailors usually wish they'd known.
A practical guide to picking a UK marina that fits how you sail, what you sail, and where you sail it — covering cost, access, facilities, and community.
Bryan McGuire · 6 min read · 4 May 2026
How to find, vet, and brief crew for a first offshore passage — covering where to look, what to ask, watch systems, and the safety basics that separate good crews from bad.
A clear walk-through of the RYA training pathway for new UK sailors — practical and theory courses, costs, sequencing, and how to choose between the available routes.
A practical guide to marine insurance and surveys for UK boat owners — types of cover, what surveyors actually do, the difference between insurance and purchase surveys, and how to choose.
A practical sailor's guide to reading tides, interpreting forecasts, and making confident go/no-go decisions — covering tools, sources, and the framework that ties them together.
A guide to the categories of sailing book worth a place on your shelf — pilots, skills books, narrative classics, and reference works — and how to build a personal library that actually gets used.
A practical safety primer for cruising sailors — VHF and DSC basics, EPIRBs and PLBs, life jackets and harnesses, MOB procedure, and the drills that turn equipment into competence.
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