After 8 years and 40,000 NM, the Wood family has completed their circumnavigation. Explore their 2026 homecoming and the launch of the Mothership Adrift book.

We continue up Namibia's "Skeleton Coast" and visit another remote anchorage at Mercury Island. Mercury Island is one of the largest breeding grounds for ...

#atlanticcrossing #sailingfamily #familysailingblog #ocean sailing Sailing the Atlantic Ocean makes us very tired as you will see in this blog and the only ...

#fishingatsea #fishing #downwindsailing #offgridliving #guttingfish #sailingfamily You wouldn't think so much could happen on a sailboat at sea but in this ...

#atlanticcrossing #offshoresailing #oceansailing #longdistancesailing We finally set off across the Atlantic ocean from the Canaries to South America. An ...

#flatbattery #boatmaintenance #atlanticcrossing #sailingcanaries Everyone says "if its not broken don't fix it" so when last minute things go wrong for us ...

#boatrepairs #grancanaria #atlanticcrossingpreparation #canaryislands #brexit We wait in Gran Canaria for a lot of things including Brexit so we can retain ...

#timanfaya #lanzarote #canaryislands #sailingcanaryislands After making landfall in Lanzarote, we go exploring straight away to the largest nativity ever and ...

#gibraltar #canaryislands #atlanticswell Leaving the Mediterranean Sea is quite daunting especially when you see how big the swell is in the Atlantic Ocean. We ...

Our visit to Gibraltar was (supposed to be) short, so we packed in as much into our brief stay as possible. In the end we stayed way longer than expected in La ...

A brief stopover in La Linea turned into a two week wait for a weather window to leave the Straits of Gibraltar. However, the time wasn’t totally wasted as we ...

#wintering #boatlife #coronavirus #lockdown Almerimar has been our 'Hotel California' for the last two years - every time we check in, we never leave. Both ...

#passagemaking #sailingwithkids #nightwatches We finally sail from Mallorca to mainland Spain on a 4 day passage . In this video, you see what life is like ...

#outboardengineproblems #sailingbalearics #enginerepair While having fun in the water in a bay in Ibiza, our outboard motor starts leaking fuel so Woody has to ...

#anchors #storm #lightning #sailingstorm On the South coast of Mallorca, we tried to shelter from a lightening storm but found that the lightening strikes were ...

Welcome to one of our cockpit sessions which is normally exclusively for patrons but this time we thought we would allow all our subscribers to see one to get ...

#oddlysatisfying #cleaning #boatcleaning In this video we complete our circumnavigation of Menorca including the interesting fort and town of Mahon. We then ...

#menorca #sailing #sailingyacht #sailingmenorca After several years we finally manage to get to the most Northern Balearic Island of Menorca. We didn't know ...

#boatname #newboat #namingboats Naming your boat involves a few tasks if your boat is registered in the Uk such as registering the new name with Ofcom for the ...

#kidsonboats #sailingfamily #boatkids There are always lots of jobs to do on a sailboat so we try to get our 3 kids involved as much as possible. When we go ...

#healthatsea #emergenciesonaboat #firstaidatsea As we travel around the Balearic Islands, we have a medical emergency on our boat that requires hospital ...

#balearics # tourismcrisis #sailingtheworld #kidsonboats In our previous episode, we were preparing for lots of visits from friends and family this summer but ...

#friendships #prepping #livingonboard We love having friends, family, guests or extra crew on our boat but we find it runs a lot more smoothly when they know ...

#formentera #sailboat #ukulele We finally set sail from mainland Spain to the Balearic Islands. After getting our anchor stuck and filling our boat full of ...