Solo sailing can sometimes be lonely. Not for me. I got my friend Galopin to talk to. Being French, he's not at a loss for words. So we banter then turn on the ...
Winded Voyage Sailing
We almost have a collision in a mooring field in Corsica and then our Steering Cable breaks on the way to Sardinia. More about the event in Annapolis: ...
Sailing Doodles
We try to find a supermarket on the BVIs, before we make our way to St. Maarten. Unfortunately this trip is no fun, upwind sailing for 24 hours. On the way ...
Sailing Seatramp
We spend some time in Oban and experience the joys of Scottish weather ----- About us ----- We have begun a liveaboard adventure on our Bavaria 36, Salty ...
Sailing Yacht Salty Lass
Oh no, Natacha will go. There goes my crew. But before she goes, we find an beautiful anchorage to get wild and frolic. We then sail back to Palmiera ...
We continue to exploring the beautiful french island of corsica byt Fountaine Pajot 47 Catamaran and do some provisioning in Porto Vecchio. This channel is ...
We have a problem getting the engine started, but eventually we wound up in what is reputed to be the "Best Stocked Chandlers in Scotland". After that, we ...
The star attractions of the island are its beaches. We land the dinghy and explore the beach at the southern most point of the island. Made of angel blond sand ...
It might just have been another exercise, but it was a surprise to all but our sneaky captain. Good to know we can rescue a fender buoy pretty easily. Once ...
Sailing Starship Friendship
As we were getting the boat ready for the summer season we had yet another problem with the electric heads. We had to use a bit of ingenuity to sort it this ...
Carl and Jenny
Our dinghy - Salty Sausage - has had a long rest over the winter, slumbering in her dinghy bag. The time has come for her to earn her keep. ----- About us ...
The Salinas de Pedra de Lume is now a tourist attraction where people bathe and float is the densely salted pools like in the Dead Sea. We spend a day there ...
----- Recipe ------ Ingredients: 1 diced chicken breast 1 small onion 3 carrots 1 parsnip 1 large leek or 2 medium ones 1 or 2 cloves of garlic 2 tblsp ...
Before setting sail from Antigua to Barbuda, Bermuda, and then Newport, we do last minute provisioning. The trip takes about half a day to Barbuda, five days ...
Where space is king – imagine chartering this! The extraordinary volume of the Sunreef 60 needs to be seen too be believed. Toby Hodges on why these Polish ...
Yachting World
Just outside of the port of Palmeira on the island of Sal is a zone of magnetic anomaly. But what is the effect of magnetic anomaly? That depends on who. In ...
We hunker on the Scottish island of Islay to wait out a storm, but our preparations do not go to plan... and the storm is a nasty one. ----- About us ----- ...
Toby Hodges looks over the first Privilege produced since Hanse bought the company and is very impressed with the quality of these Lombard designed catamarans ...
Since life is coming in the way of blog posts, I am going to attempt to release 1 vlog per week. Topics I will be covering in this Vlog: 1. Injury Update ...
Sailor Shinde
On the Hook for Crew Overboard, Kitesurfing & Beach Cleanup Heads up, the man overboard stuff is just for entertainment. We’re not good enough at it to ...
This powerful new 50ft TS5 is the big brother to the successful TS42 cruiser-racer, a minimalist, lightweight (8.6T) performance cat that could cruise or race ...
We continue along the Northern Ireland coastline in our Bavaria 36 sailboat as we leave Ballycastle and Rathlin Island for the bright lights of Northern ...
Falling asleep at the helm is not like falling asleep at the wheel. We did and went off course and not off a cliff. Nat was hungover and I was tired from ...