I'm reading all sorts at the moment, mainly in bursts and supported by the long-drawn out enjoyment of Sara Bakewell's biography of Michel Montaigne, How to live. You wouldn't want to find out how to crack that eternal question in one weekend surely? So mixed with Justin Cartwright's To heaven by water and Giuttari's A death in Calabria I get the right balance of existential insights and undulated entertainment.

Dun Laoghaire Regatta

As a novice blogger I completely didn't think about the fact that my exploits in the Dun Laoghaire Regatta would be interesting to include here. So, two weeks after the event (at which Frank and myself did rather well), here are a few impressions of the IDRA 14's from www.afloat.ie and fotosail.com: