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We've been dotting our way through the islands of west coast Thailand for a little while now so I...

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...

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Head over to "Latitudes and Attitudes" magazine to [...]

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 [...]

We love the Komodo islands. The friendly boat community of Indonesian phinisis, or junk rigs, is based in Labuan Bajo which is [...]

We all imagine that we are alone on our boats. Gently swaying at anchor, with the sun shining down, lulls us into a false sense of [...]

Just to let you know that I've just got through a backlog of updates to the site, mainly in the form of a whole host of articles that you may not yet have seen. We were featured in [...]

No, you didn't read that wrong but it doesn't quite mean that we're setting a course back eastwards either. A number of [...]

I simply adore swap meets. The traditional car boot sale or antiques market in land-lubber life has always had a certain appeal but they are always plagued with the business of having to root through all the junk to uncover something useful. By…

After the ghoulish curiosity for questions about storms and pirates abates, people are always interested in our engine. And it’s often with a tone of [...]

Following on from our piece in "Femail", the Daily Mail online (click here if you haven't read it already) we were contacted by the main paper to do a further interview. Apparently they needed a good news story to counteract [...]