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Southerly Red Sea Passage 2007
Yacht Calliope From the Mediterranean to Seychelles Autumn 2007 Calliope felt ...

Published 17 years ago, updated 6 years ago

Eastwards Across the Andaman Sea
We left Aden in mid-Jan and were blessed with crazy but good winds to sail up to Salalah in Oman, although we had to engine the last 100m. We had to ...

Published 17 years ago, updated 7 years ago

Piracy: a strategy against the worst cases
I read with attention to the comments concerning piracy and weapons on board. I write to you about this with the perspective of a former security ...

Published 17 years ago, updated 7 years ago

Beautiful cruising along Gulf of Aden and Red Sea in 2007
Now that so many bad news about piracy, terrorism and insecurity in Yemen and the Red Sea are in the paper we would like to share a completely ...

Published 17 years ago, updated 7 years ago

Eritrea: Yacht Pursued
The following is an account of the Sailing Vessel Tactical Directions being approached by a fishing boat off the coast of Eritrea. Sunday 6th ...

Published 17 years ago, updated 6 years ago

Break-in at Ibiza: Lessons Learnt In Security
Following is a lightly edited version of an e-mail I sent to a few close friends two weeks ago after our boat was boarded by thieves at anchor in the ...

Published 18 years ago, updated 6 years ago