It turns out it wasn’t just Naomi and Mike that wanted to know how triple expansion engines work. Our commenters all want to know more. So, for all of you budding steam propulsion engineers out there, here is a little…

Given how friendly and helpful all the locals have been to us Londoners, we were happy to help when the tour boat that has been kindly letting us use their pontoon in Burrafirth got a rope tangled around one of…

This afternoon, Ben persuaded everyone that it would be a good idea to drive ten miles to Out Stack because the promised northerly force 5 had failed to appear. Needless to say, by the time we arrived, that northerly breeze…

So, what’s going on here? Well, this is our BSAC expedition grant mentor, the First Class JD dealing with Naomi and Mike. They were silly enough to ask what a triple expansion engine was. They probably were expecting a one-line…

We like nudis. And they like the Shetlands. Here’s today’s haul: Well, the last one isn’t really a nudi. It looks like an atlantic cowrie to us, but hey…