Not the best weekend for working outside with 50 plus knots of wind hurling about the garden but work on the mast progressed significantly, ...

The ‘pontona’ is a traditional Catalan craft, an elusive denizen of the Ebro Delta and more than half way to extinction. Some can be seen la...

With arms lax and heavy, back warm and limber, snuggled into a favourite corner of the sofa with a book and a glass of wine it’s all I can d...

The main topic of these pages has long been absent, and though she’s not the jealous kind all this ogling of polbeiros and currachs is not e...

Narcis Fors of Belone , builder of skin on frame kayaks, has sent me some better photos of the Catalan currach. He says that the currach row...

Just to clarify the previous post here’s a map showing the location of the battle of Lepanto. The coastline of Greece has changed significan...

The other rowing boat at Barcelona's maritime museum, in a different class to the humble polbeiro, was a reproduction of the fighting ga...