SAILING BLOG
Sailing Stories
“But if you know the seasons, you also know that when spring blooms and the signs of summer show, it is as if winter never happened. And we look back at a storm which scared us senseless and made us doubt our entire undertaking, with wonderful forgetfulness, and we say: -we got through it, did we not, and now it is over.”
Breaking & Fixing
“So, for the next three hours, we ran frantically around deck, shifting jerry cans from one side to the other, balancing the boat as it heeled threateningly at every gust. The minutes snailed by as the water disappeared beneath us until we were left high and dry, regrettably still balancing the boat on its keel.”
Sailor Food
“A pandemic is a good reason to go and get yourself stuck on a faraway island for 6 weeks. Here the palms were full, and the sailors keen on trading, and so, we lived like kings on coconuts and pickled fish”
