Alison Cable

Robinetta set off on her travels again in 2021, having been laid up afloat over the COVID pandemic. This time the aim was to sail her north to her owners' new home in the Clyde. With rather more gear failures than ideal it took two sailing seasons for her to reach the Clyde from Tollesbury via a largely different set of harbours and anchorages to the ones she visited in 2014. Including the Cruising Association's Dugon Cup winning log of 2021

School's over, so now real life has to begin for everyone graduating from AsCoS. But what if you're the only one not to get drafted into the Solar Patrol? Can you really learn to pilot a fighting ship when no one else thinks you should try? As the conflict between the Alliance and the Venusians turns into all out war very few places are safe. Between Venusian assassination attempts and Terran Confederacy offers of protection in a prison where should...

We bought our 22'6" Gaff cutter in 2007, and have been lavishing love, attention, and time on her ever since. When she was 75 years old, in 2012, we decided to collect together our various blog posts and edit them together to publish in book form. We sail Robinetta on the East Coast of England, in waters familiar to many people. There are tales of adventure, misadventure, and maintenance within, but we do our best to avoid high drama! Robinetta is...

We have owned our yacht Robinetta for 7 years, and never gone far from home, but in 2014 we decided it was time she finished going round Britain. I say finished, because after Robinetta was built at Birkenhead in 1937, she headed north, and in 1938 got to the Isle of Skye. From there she headed anticlockwise, making it to the East Coast of England in the late 1940s, where she stayed until May 2014. She is only 20”on the waterline, and we passage...

In 2017 We took our gaff cutter Robinetta from Holyhead on Anglesey up to Scotland, (via Liverpool), then down the Welsh side of the Irish Sea to Bristol. This book is an account of that journey, with all its attendant joys and trials, including a radio that would not stay on station, an engine that filled the bilges with oil, and some interesting weather. What with traversing the Menai Strait, more Sounds than we can remember (including some of...

This is the story of a year in the life of a small old wooden gaff rigged sailing yacht. It contains details of the maintenance needed to keep a 76 year old boat going, as well as what can do wrong over the course of a season, with both boat and crew. We have owned Robinetta since 2007, and this is the year when things went wrong, as we went on our most ambitious cruise to date, from the river Blackwater in Essex, round to Cowes, and back.