Uncategorized – Water-log

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...

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...

November 15, 2022

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…

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 [...]

November 6, 2020

The future of cruising?

My good friend, Behan Gifford, of s/v Totem recently wanted to get [...]

January 1, 2018

Robinson Crusoe

December 1, 2017

Ruled paper

June 3, 2017

What it’s all about

We left England in 2011 aboard Adamastor, an Angelo Lavranos Crossbow, intending to circumnavigate in a couple of years.

After crossing the Atlantic and enjoying several months in the Caribbean we reached Panama, where we decided to start a family. Now we combine our cruising with being full-time parents to our daughter, Rocket, who was born en route in Mexico. We crossed the Pacific ocean with her, from Mexico to New Zealand, exploring all the South Pacific islands in between.

Our crew expanded with our son, Indigo, who was born in New Zealand. Our journey then took us back out to the South Pacific and onward into South East Asia. We spent some time sailing in Indonesia and then welcomed a baby girl, Autumn, born on a flying visit back to the UK. After returning to the boat we continued to cruise the Indonesian islands and, due to Covid-19, spent 8 months in Labuan Bajo in the Komodo islands. We then headed north, hoping to sail towards Malaysia and Thailand, and landed in Singapore at the end of 2020.

Once borders finally reopened we headed up to West coast Malaysia, spending some time at a yard to re-rig, re-antifoul and also raise some kittens! With the boat spruced up and the cats adopted we are now cruising between the Langkawi archipelago and the Thai islands, where there is an anchorage for every wind direction and plenty to explore!

It’s been 12 years, 38 countries, 2 oceans, 3 babies en route and 30,000 miles since we set off and you can follow our progress here.