As my ongoing ‘sabbatical’ continues to morph into something more akin to ‘retirement’, I can now look back and finally admit that maybe stress did actually play a part in…
Read more34 years on, Yachting Monthly sets the record straight on Tilman
The December 2016 issue of Yachting Monthly pays tribute to the Skipper in style, although I should probably admit to a certain editorial bias here since much of the copy was…
Read more‘Mischief in Patagonia’ – from the new H.W. Tilman Collected Edition
In 1953, after a brief and unsatisfying stint as a British consul in Myanmar, then Burma, Bill Tilman decides to return to the mountains, this time using the sea as…
Read more‘Travels with Tilman’ at the Royal Cruising Club dinner
On the 15th December, 1970, Bill Tilman sent me a letter which remarked on a pitch he gave to the Royal Thames Yacht Club, a letter I’ve been reading as…
Read moreHooray for the Red, White and Blue
As the US presidential election candidates stoop lower and lower, this image of urban decay taken while working in Tulsa, Oklahoma in 2008 seems to reflect the overall decay of the…
Read moreMusing on Moore’s Law
[Originally written in January, 2010, a few weeks before my management played their ‘trump card’ by changing the pension rules and elbowing out a significant percentage of their intellectual property] I…
Read more