The downside of having offspring is that, when you’ve sailed for 18 hours and felt f!$king dire for most of them, they awake at the same time as usual – meaning that you get approximately four hours sleep. Joy. It’s lucky the surroundings were sublime. It’s easier to feel hungover when it’s 20 degrees and …
We left Hastings at just before 8am on Wednesday morning – after days of strong wind warnings necessitating remaining tied up to the pier, it was our window of opportunity. It was initially straightforward, the closer we got to the mouth of Westernport, the bigger the swell got – it was like being on a …
Many years ago I bought my car on ebay for $1100 from a guy called Manfred in Kilsyth. He was a very nice man and had looked after the car beautifully. He gifted us $50 for the baby that I was very obviously going to be soon having. We named the car in his honour; …
Since leaving the boatyard on 27th September 2016, we have largely spent our time tied up at Hastings Pier – much to M‘s chagrin. We’ve done a trip back to Cowes, which included our first night at anchor… [we were held all night by MY KNOT! I have been put in charge of the anchor …
Our first night out on the water was spent pulled up to the pier at Rhyll. It’s one of the places M and I love and have sailed to quite a few times. It was a different dead pulling up alongside the pier in Bella Luna for the first time though! M handled it super …
In addition to the rules of ‘Don’t Fall Off The Boat’, ‘Wear Your Lifejacket’ and ‘Put Nothing In The Toilet That Does Not Come Out Of A Human Orifice (Except Toilet Paper)’ there is one other – simpler, but of equal importance: ‘No Deadlines.’ I tired, over the past five years, of telling people we …