Watch keeping should be easy, but people stress about it, especially when you are starting out. However over the last seven years of sailing the Oceans we have learned a…
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Moving from a life on land where you see your partner/ husband/wife for only a few hours a day to living on a boat 24/7 takes some adjustment. We have…
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Welcome to our very first Boat Life podcast! In this first episode, Nick talks you through the beginning of his sailing story: how he got started, the lessons he learned…
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Two blogs in three days?! You lucky buggers. I must be feeling generous. For those of you who can’t be dealing with reading me prattle on again, don’t worry. This…
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Seriously. It’s cold. I know I’ve been living in the UK for 5 years now and should probably just learn to man up and get on with it, but when…
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It’s June on Monday. Apparently. I have tried explaining this to my fingers, feet and most other parts of my body. However even ensconced in fleeces, puffer jackets, socks,boots,gloves, and…
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It’s a Monday morning and Im sat at the chart table looking out at Cowes. It is not quite what I expected, however we have yet to venture out ,…
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As I sit here on another grey windy afternoon in Kent, it is fast approaching the time where we will leave and move to sunnier climes. Despite a couple of…
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This week saw our schedule become tighter as a week that could have been spent preparing for a circumnavigation was spend instead eating various pork products in Germany. As the…
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Unlike Joey Tempest of 80’s rock band Europe, I am not sporting a blonde mullet ( yet). However we have entered “the final countdown”. We have a more than vague…