When I did my sailing courses anchoring was discussed but not practiced. When I became a liveaboard boat gypsy, spending most of every summer at anchor, (whenever I wasn't sailing anyway) in order to avoid peak visitors rates in marinas, I suddenly discovered there's a lot more to it than just how much scope to use.If you Google' how to anchor a boat' you'll find plenty of articles some of which even stretch to a couple of pages long! However, a quick look at just the contents list...

The unconventional and unlikely life of an east end lad. Born and raised in Walthamstow by parents from Stoke Newington and Hackney the life Malcolm Snook has lead and continues to lead could hardly be what his parents or peers would have expected. His first real career was as a skydiving instructor in the 1970s, when skydiving might be considered dangerous, but sex was safe! With ambitions to be a racing driver Snook turned his attentions to a career in automotive advertising to b...

Many people still read Napoleon Hill's iconic book 'Think And Grow Rich' but Hill took it for granted that his readers knew the men he had studied. And indeed his contemporaries did know them, just as we are familiar with the life stories of men like Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, Warren Buffet, Bill Clinton and indeed all the successful and famous people of our age.For many of today's readers of Think and Grow Rich the biographies of men like Henry Ford, Thomas Edison, The Wright Brother...