Last September I did a day’s work aboard a Mediterranean trawler. Evidently there was no comparison to be made with the experience described...

I recently re-read Redmond O’Hanlon’s excellent book Trawler. Redmond—writer, naturalist and academic—embarks on an Orkney Islands trawler s...

The trawler fleet return to Vilanova harbour in the watery afternoon light. The more elderly wooden boats have a distinctive sheer and pleas...

Looking over the water in the dawn light, breathing the sea’s salt breath.  

Despite inauspicious beginnings with the local rowing team I’ve continued, training when ever time is available. I even particip...

I can’t go to a neighbouring beach without stopping to look at a particular boat and firing up a little pipe dream. Ration...

Late autumn in Catalonia can bring some beautiful days. After a week of cold, roof-tile-flinging winds and crashing swells with fierce under...