December 15, 2023
Buy our boat!!!
Yes, you read that right! Our beautiful boat, "Adamastor", is now for sale in Langkawi, Malaysia. You can find the full spec listing for her by...
October 20, 2023
100 columns later…
October brings a nice little milestone in that the October issue of Sailing Today magazine has my 100th column for them in it! Whoop whoop!...
August 20, 2023
Thai island style
We've been dotting our way through the islands of west coast Thailand for a little while now so I...
June 5, 2023
New articles added
Head on over to the Sailing Today section of our "Articles" page by...
May 2, 2023
Back in the water!
We're back afloat and oh does it feel so good! The new rigging is one, the hull is freshly painted and we've done a whole slew of...
March 15, 2023
All work and no play…
So we're still in the boatyard in Pangkor, Malaysia, working away as much and as hard as we can on the boat. Here are a few highlight shots of our progress so far on...
January 10, 2023
To the boatyard
After our two year stint in Singapore it was definitely time to get the boat ready for...
November 15, 2022
A change of image
It seems incredible that I've been writing for sailing magazines internationally for 9 years now. I've been amazingly lucky to have worked with some great editors who trusted me and encouraged me, allowing me platforms to write about really whatever…
August 8, 2022
Friends in far flung places
Thanks to the Covid-19 pandemic it has been a loooooooong time since we've been back in our native UK. It's hard on the kids not seeing their cousins and grandparents as we normally do a trip back every two years or so. So, with our floating home…
January 18, 2022
A lot can happen at sea
Happy New Year! I know that hasn't been that much by way of news visible here, but without covering too many miles we're simply cracking on and getting ahead with boat jobs, keeping our girl happy. But, in the meantime, I've made a [...]
November 10, 2021
The year that wasn’t…
Nothing but gratitude today as we mark 1 year since we arrived into Singapore. They offered us safe harbour when all borders were closed due to covid. It’s a strange existence we have [...]
December 18, 2020
Yes we ARE still Sailing Today!
After a looooooooooong overdue update (please remember I'm working on a book here folks!!) I've finally caught up with all the Sailing Today columns that I should have been posting up here each month. Head on over to [...]
November 6, 2020
The future of cruising?
My good friend, Behan Gifford, of s/v Totem recently wanted to get [...]
September 26, 2020
Happy new year!
Wait, what? Let me explain...There is the calendar year, January to December. There is the financial or tax year, April to March. And then there is the boat year [...]
August 1, 2020
Another Imray live event
Following on from the success of my talk on "juggling pilotage, parenting and [...]
June 18, 2020
Lockdown stories
Sailing Today magazine asked me and a number of other sailors and cruisers for some input on our experiences during the Covid-19 [...]
June 14, 2020
Anniversary and updates
Time flies when you're having fun... It's already 5 years since I started writing the "Blue Note" column for Sailing Today Magazine in the UK and I'm so happy that they have been [...]
June 7, 2020
Hooray for dolphins
It doesn’t matter how many years I have lived at sea, what oceans I’ve sailed or the lands I’ve visited, I will never, ever tire of seeing dolphins. I’ve encountered them in flat calms, when the very [...]