Jackdaw

Travel in style on a steamer

If you don’t own a boat, then for many people their only experience of getting out on the Thames is by taking a trip on a passenger launch.

Learning how not to sail

It’s no secret that I’m a complete sailing addict and have been for most of my life.

History of island with a ‘window on the Thames’

Reader Joan Tait of Chertsey Lane, Egham Hythe wrote to me recently asking about the history of Truss’s Island on the Surrey bank of the Thames just above Penton Hook Lock.