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...
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!...
Thai island style
We've been dotting our way through the islands of west coast Thailand for a little while now so I...
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...
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...
To the boatyard
After our two year stint in Singapore it was definitely time to get the boat ready for...
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…
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
New content
Head over to "Latitudes and Attitudes" magazine to [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
It looks like rain
Sometimes the life of a liveaboard sailor seems completely at odds with that of a landlubber: things that may seem simple in our boat lives may be infinitely more complex in a house. Likewise, there are subjects that appear trivial when you live on…
Out of control
There is nothing quite so daunting as suddenly being at the helm of your own boat for the first time. When it came to the 44 footers that I had first sailed on I was comfortable that my steering was effective, that my understanding of wind…
Amazing mantas
We love the Komodo islands. The friendly boat community of Indonesian phinisis, or junk rigs, is based in Labuan Bajo which is [...]
The hospital ship
The first lesson of parenting is really to expect the unexpected. Funnily enough, the same can be said of liveaboard sailing. Often our travels see us going from one extreme to the other in terms of available supplies as we’ve sailed both to big,…
Multi-tasking
As I mentioned a little while back I'm currently working on [...]
On bravery
I suppose it must be true that sometimes it takes seeing yourself and your life through another person’s eyes to admit and accept certain facts. I don’t consider myself to be a particularly [...]
Peek-a-boat
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 [...]