The Log

Its Friday and things are looking up!

Firstly, bleary eyed, I log onto the Zoe Covid app to make my daily report to find that cases in my area having been dropping rapidly. Well that has to be a great start to the day! Then, warily, I...

What a ropey year that was!

2020 certainly gave us a bumpy ride! Thanks for hanging on, we seem to have made it through to the New Year without losing our rigging. I hope you are all well and taking care of yourselves. Stran...

First Alex Thomson, now Ben Ainsley?

How frustrating it must be to have a boat costing £120 million and a team of the world’s top sailors yet they haven't been able to take part in all the practice races in Auckland. The risks of a f...

Alex Thomson doing 6.5 knots - Wow 6.5 knots!

When I wake each morning I tune in to the web to find out how Alex Thomson is doing in the Vendee Globe Race. This morning I found that he had slipped to third place and was doing only 6.5 knots I ...

The Vendée Globe Race is about to start!

  This has to be the greatest sporting event on earth! Around the world, single handed, non-stop, in boats that go so fast that they almost fly. It is a French race and deservedly so. The French l...

What will happen to Arthur Beale? – With the new lockdown it’s all in the balance

But it’s not all bad news. On the really positive side we have a brilliant BRAND NEW WEBSITE! Once Google finds us, we hope it will bring in loads more trade from all around the world, and from ot...

Arthur Beale is moving into the Twentieth Century

Blimey, the Twenty First Century already - what happened to the last one! While you may have had your feet up in the relaxing furlough position, we have been beavering away on a "Moonshot" IT proj...

Tentative steps - but Arthur Beale is opening up!

I hope you are all keeping well and have succeeded in getting afloat somehow this summer. It is still quiet in the West End with most of the offices still shut but we are slowly opening up. Our ...

Are you open yet?

Not quite, I’m afraid. You are very welcome to phone through to the shop and arrange a collection, or you can still order online, but we are not quite ready to actually open our doors. It was our...

Wooden Boats Saved by the Bell! The Covers are Coming Off!

There have been quite a few anxious wooden boat owners wondering when they can dunk their precious boats in the briny to stop them drying out. Now that DEFRA has officially declared boating open, i...