Sailing Blog

Paralympic sailing icon and Sunsail ambassador, Helena Lucas MBE recently retired from competitive sailing, and celebrated by enjoying her first ever catamaran sailing holiday. She tells us how she got on.

Do you want a sailing holiday you’ll remember forever? Do you want to go to an exotic nirvana, filled with shimmering seas and tropical fish? Then welcome to Belize. It’s paradise found.

Sailors can use clouds to stay high, dry and ahead of the weather. Know your mare’s tail from your thunderhead?

Here’s a little poem about clouds that will serve you well:

“Cumulo cumulus, heaps & piles,

When we arrive in sunny Croatia we try to play it cool but don’t succeed: It’s almost like a bit of Tuscany has been dropped into the Balkan Adriatic: vineyards and olive groves carpet the steep hillsides, cypresses stud the coastline and tiny, tr