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Just to let you know that I've just got through a backlog of updates to the site, mainly in the form of a whole host of articles that you may not yet have seen. We were featured in [...]

No, you didn't read that wrong but it doesn't quite mean that we're setting a course back eastwards either. A number of [...]

I simply adore swap meets. The traditional car boot sale or antiques market in land-lubber life has always had a certain appeal but they are always plagued with the business of having to root through all the junk to uncover something useful. By...

We sailors love our special bits of rules and etiquette don’t we? From COLREGs to radio speak, the yachting world is littered with hints and tips of best practice that help the novice adjust to this whole new language of sailing. But whilst [...]

After the ghoulish curiosity for questions about storms and pirates abates, people are always interested in our engine. And it’s often with a tone of [...]

Recently we were approached by a Polish magazine that wanted to document our travels and family adventure. It all appears here in [...]

Following on from our piece in "Femail", the Daily Mail online (click here if you haven't read it already) we were contacted by the main paper to do a further interview. Apparently they needed a good news story to counteract [...]

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...

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

We first wrote up our experiences using the Iridum Go and Predict Wind here. Later on the good folks at Ocean Navigator magazine [...]

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...

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...