- SOS What is it all for? Session on the Sea · Friday 6 November 2026 · on land · Port Melbourne Yacht Club For once, not an on-water day. Not because the weather wasn’t right, but because it looked like it would become another solo day, and with that, an opportunity to use the time for some preparations. But at some point I also started to… 10 November 2026
- SOS Two Fridays on the Bay An account of the heave-to anchoring experiments · RS Quest “Aurora” · Port Phillip, October 2026 There is a particular foolishness in setting out alone on a Friday afternoon to test a theory about anchors. The theory ran like this: that a dinghy sailed single-handed could be made to anchor itself — hove-to, parked, both hands free for the rode… 30 October 2026
- SOS 30 knots, 30 degrees, 30 topics. At least. The second Session on the Sea had a crew of two, the day Linda — aka Phoenix — dared to set foot on Aurora, on a (too) warm spring afternoon of flat water and strong gusts. Linda Baird, CEO of a eucalypt-conservation trust by day and our Sea Scouts group leader for years, opened the session a day early, by… 26 October 2026
- SOS First Session on the Sea: one anchor, one capsize, nobody watching. The first Session on the Sea went out on Friday, with no one aboard but me. For Session on the Sea, that’s not a cancellation — it turns into a session to experiment. And this Friday, I tried to anchor, like no one has (possibly) ever tried before. What I wanted to test: anchoring the dinghy single-handed from a heave-to,… 20 October 2026
- Aurora Your last meeting of the week Your last meeting of the week, and not the kind you are picturing. No boardroom, no deck, no cocktail. A small sailing boat on Port Phillip Bay, one big problem each, and quite possibly a stranger sitting next to you. That is the plan for the final calendar entry for Friday afternoon - a Session on the Sea There is… 07 October 2026