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 [...]
May 10, 2020
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…
April 30, 2020
The scenic route
You’re going sailing? Fantastic! Where to? I hear Hawaii might be nice, or how about the Azores? Will you simply follow the [...]
March 29, 2020
Treading water
I don't tend to write blog entries in the style of "we're here and we're doing this". I prefer to [...]
March 19, 2020
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…
February 12, 2020
Amazing mantas
We love the Komodo islands. The friendly boat community of Indonesian phinisis, or junk rigs, is based in Labuan Bajo which is [...]
January 20, 2020