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…

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…

  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…