Trash soup
Sailing gives you the opportunity to have your eyes opened to different cultures, exotic new flavours and languages, enabling you to learn new ways of thinking and being. This constant education is the single most fulfilling thing about our cruising…
A little update
The birth of baby Autumn plus our extended time in the UK have allowed for a little extra time for a few updates to the site here and there. This includes our favourite page, the "Photography" one, where some [...]
Extra, extra, read all about it!
So, apparently we are interesting enough to count as newsworthy... or perhaps it's just a slow news week. Either way, we were approached via our connections with Sleepyhead to do an interview which featured [...]
Row, row, row your boat
To row or not to row? That is the question. Getting your dinghy from A to B, from boat to shore, is an everyday occurrence for any liveaboard. But, although seemingly [...]
Autumn’s first Christmas
Yes it's freezing, and yes we're still living in a house with no hot running water, no bathroom and no central heating with our now 3 month old baby and our 3 and 5 year old kiddos. Weren't we supposed to be sailing round the world? [...]
Bareboat sailing
Sailors like to get naked. After all your boat is your home and who needs to be covered up in sweltering layers in the tropical heat? Why not just [...]
Wifi on board article
We first wrote up our experiences using the Iridum Go and Predict Wind here. Later on the good folks at Ocean Navigator magazine [...]
What’s in a name?
Once you’ve been cruising for a while you develop a shorthand, referring to every couple or family onboard by their boat name. We get cards or emails to “the Adamastors” and we never take offence at it, although it’s a far cry from our much cooler…
Season’s greetings
Here is our new baby girl [...]
It all comes out in the wash
We’re back in the UK, enjoying the reunions with family and friends that our brief sojourns from our ‘proper’ life at sea allow us. And there is one acquaintance that I must admit I am incredibly glad to see again – a washing machine. Not a bucket,…
We’d get nowhere without fuel
Remember the fuel page on our old format website? Well this season's sailing that took us from New Zealand to Lombok, via all the islands of Vanuatu, the Solomons, Papua New Guinea and Indonesia, saw some major sea miles and some long, lingering…
On seas, straits and selats
Although “sailing the seven seas” is a phrase referring to journeying across all of the world’s oceans it’s one that seems quite appropriate to our cruising this last year. Leaving New Zealand saw us passage-making across the edge of the Coral sea…
In search of the big fish
There are certain experiences that are really best managed if you live on a boat. A snatched 2 week holiday gives you a set and finite deadline to fit everything in and, particularly when it comes to matters of wildlife spotting, you need everything…
Staying Afloat
Sail Magazine in the USA isn't one that I write for regularly but I've had a piece in the works with them for some time that ended up being published earlier this year. It's all about the [...]
Cruising Outpost magazine
The nice folks at Cruising Outpost magazine in the USA gave us a 10 page spread for "The coconut milk run", a piece all about your [...]