Kim Hollamby | The anchor swallowed

See this time lapse of the Radiance of the Seas in 2003 as she made her way through the Panama Canal.

Memories of Howard Jones, my crew for a rare one-tide motorboat passage between Gloucester and Bristol Floating Dock.

Wallpaper* magazine is celebrating its 100th issue by asking readers to vote on which of its iconic covers is the best.

Paul Lomax’s latest blog, 10 tactics for Web 2.0 success, reminds me of many a late night spent conversing with him over some of the key issues surrounding internet development in the current age.
Of all of the points he makes his second, which points out the ideal of sites with a “strong, simple and compelling […]

20 years of Motor Boats Monthly gallery
Doesn’t seem, ummm…10 years since I wrote a horribly long 10-year celebration in the magazine itself. Fun to see a reminder of past days and good to see they’ve found a more succinct way of celebrating the 20th!
I joined the mag just in time to see the very first […]

After a lot of transatlantic effort we launched InStyle’s UK website last night.
On the surface it looks like a close cousin of the parent InStyle.com site in the US but there have been many changes to make it more suitable for a predominantly UK audience. The site editor is Maria Milano, who flew out to […]

An announcement went out today that formally cut my last direct links with the marine industry.
IBI news announcement of new DAME Awards chairman.
I’ve worked in some capacity with boating since 1985 when I joined Motor Cruiser magazine. What happened next was 15 fabulous and extremely busy years, most of them on Motor Boats Monthly magazine, […]

Okay, this is probably about the last blog of many to highlight it but finally…a fun use for Twitter.
Twittervision - the place where Twitter meets Google Maps.
Must admit, quite addictive, even if most of the comments are, predictably, very twitteresque.