May 2, 2019
The storm before the calm
Ahhh, the sailing life. The imagined carefree bliss of cruising through gin-clear waters, of sunsets in secluded Caribbean anchorages, of whitesand beaches in the South Pacific, dolphins dancing at your bow wave whilst the steady tradewinds carry…
April 4, 2019
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…
March 30, 2019
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 [...]
March 20, 2019
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 [...]
March 1, 2019
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 [...]
February 14, 2019
11 pages on us, oh my!
The lovely folks at Cruising Helmsman magazine in Australia are[...]
February 3, 2019
The squirrel sailor
In a floating world where self-reliance and ingenuity rule it pays to be prepared. Living in a state where both your plans and the weather can change on you is one thing and you never quite know what issue or challenge might crop up on a boat. But…
January 31, 2019
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? [...]
January 1, 2019
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 [...]
December 13, 2018
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 [...]
December 2, 2018
The cardinal sin
Traditionally there are certain laws or superstitions that sailors like to live by. “No bananas on a boat… don’t let a woman onboard… never leave port on a Friday…” All fine examples of dubious seafaring wisdom that we choose to bluntly and…
November 1, 2018
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…
October 1, 2018
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,…
September 15, 2018
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…
August 30, 2018
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…
August 16, 2018
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…
July 28, 2018
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 [...]
June 26, 2018
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 [...]