I needed to venture out of the marina to get some fresh air and a change of scenery...I realised it’s been quite a few days...Eish! Decided to upgrade my little weekly cheeky treat this evening... to a deliciously juicy sirloin steak and a glass of red at Cotton...
When the days are long and hard, when you’re working from sunrise to sunset, using every available bit of daylight that you have, then still carry on working late into the night getting Rose Rambler organised and sorted, so she’s ready to rock and roll. A few...
Today a new challenge began...To sand down and re-paint 40ft Privilege catamaran, “True North’s” entire mast...While it's still mounted on the boat in the water... A bit of an unconventional way of doing it as this is normally a job undertaken with the mast...
Now I know what doctors feel like when trying to perform keyhole surgery... Installing a new very awkwardly placed seacock (outlet valve) that was being very stubborn yesterday, having to do it one-handed through a small hole whilst having to be a contortionist...
What a day! Absolutely shattered... Two coats of black antifouling paint now fully painted onto the bottom of this lovely lady. It’s pretty nasty gungy stuff... even nastier when you literally have to scrub a layer of your face off with a green scouring sponge...
What an honest day’s hard work in a boatyard in the heat looks like. Get a boat they said... it will be fun they said. 😂 After scraping, scrubbing and sanding away to remove a mini reef of barnacles and growth from the bottom of a boat in order to prep the...
Some friends of mine made an awesome little discovery painted on the harbour wall way out in the Azores Islands in the Atlantic Ocean. Some friends of mine have arrived in the Azores (islands off Portugal) after crossing the Atlantic from the Caribbean back to...
Gosh! Missing everyone in Port De Soller so damn much at the mo, some of the most amazing people I’ve ever met in my lifetime. Seeing a constant flow of pics of sailing friends coming and going as they visit this stunningly beautiful place on their journeys is...
There really is something to be appreciated when you wake up to a gorgeous summer sunrise, having slept under an amphitheatre of stars in the open air on the deck of a big wooden sailboat, whilst gently bobbing about in a beautiful bay along the Spanish coast in...
It’s been a pretty meh day after waving my dear friends Simon and Bev, and her royal majesty Princess Bella the cat goodbye, as they finally set off to continue sailing around the Med. Without a doubt, two of the most amazing people I have ever met in my entire...