Introducing Sailing Mutiny: Who Are We and Why did we Sell Up to Sail Away?

Whilst we’ve been sharing our adventure on Facebook the past week or so, we realised that we haven’t properly introduced ourselves yet! So here we are to put that right.

We talk about who we are and where we’re from (anyone heard of a little town in Shropshire called Oswestry??). We share our reasons WHY we decided to give everything up, buy a sailboat and sail off into the sunset to go and explore Northern Europe (and beyond!) We’ve had some pretty compelling reasons why we should do it such as illnesses and losses. We decided to trade in living to work for working to live instead. We share why we’re travelling on a sailboat and not any other way (you don’t want to miss Scrappy’s introduction in this bit!). Having your dog onboard a yacht is a great way to travel with them. Find out who and what inspired us. Why we LOVE living aboard our floating home, having our dog onboard with us and our thoughts on if we made the right decision or not to sell everything and sail away!

There are so many reasons why we decided to rebel against normality. From having to face a fatal brain tumour in the family to becoming a teacher with depression and anxiety to having mental health issues whilst working for the emergency services and being diagnosed with severe PTSD.

Instead of continuing a life of having to deal with all that, we decided to become a sailing couple and go sailing Northern Europe and live life on board a yacht. This is our story of why we sold up and sailed away. The mental health issues haven’t stopped but given the choice of travelling and sailing with PTSD or attempting to deal with it on land with everything else that goes along with it, you can see why we chose to sail away!

I don’t think mental health issues are discussed enough in our society. Sharing them is half the battle. It’s not like having a broken leg that everyone can see. Instead, you face a battle with yourself in your head every waking moment that other people just can’t comprehend. There are so many people in the emergency services that suffer but just don’t get the help they need. From the ambulance service to the fire service to the Police. They see things every day that build up over time and without proper help to support them, it can cause long-term damaging PTSD which affects everyday lives in so many ways.

This trip is our attempt to help ourselves and get out of the rat race so that we can begin to heal.

We go much deeper into our story on our website so if you’d like to find out more, please follow the links below.

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Join Dave, Robyn and Scrappy: “The Three Mutineers” as they sail around Northern Europe whilst rebelling against normality. There are plenty of stops on the way where they explore, crack jokes and enjoy delicious new food to their hearts content!
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Read “Our Story” on our website to find out more about us all: https://www.sailingmutiny.com/the-story/
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Find out more about where we live: https://www.sailingmutiny.com/the-boat/
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Find out more about us on our “About Us” page (good title choice eh?!): https://www.sailingmutiny.com/about-us/
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Read our Sailing Travel Journal entries here: https://www.sailingmutiny.com/category/sailing-travel-journal/
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The equipment we use to make these movies:

Main Camera: http://amzn.to/2hxSbDT
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19:23 : “Shine” – Declan DP
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