In two days(!) I leave to start a circumnavigation of Vancouver Island! This is by far the biggest sailing related feat I’ve attempted, so a lot of planning has gone into it, and Emma is coming along to make things… Continue reading
Well, first docking mishap to cause damage I should say. Ugh. So let’s get to it – after a lovely weekend at Orcas Island (where I saw several firework displays) and ate some oysters (I had one that was too… Continue reading
I guess my titles are becoming more and more literal. Soon it’s gonna devolve down to ‘I did a Thing and then another Thing’. Anyway. My original plan was to head to Orcas island on Friday 1st July. This is… Continue reading
I haven’t updated for a while because I’ve been really tired, was on a business trip and <insert excuse here> So here are some things that happened recently in no real order Had my fourth broach/knockdown. This one was on… Continue reading
So I’ve been doing some racing recently, mainly as an attempt to learn more about sail trim beyond ‘the white things are up in the air and not flapping’ I started around a month ago after Phil invited me onto… Continue reading
So it was just a long weekend here, and I decided to take the opportunity to take off an extra two days, turning it into a 5 day weekend! And, I can’t remember if I mentioned this but I plan… Continue reading
I still hadn’t tested my autopilot out on a full blown trip, and last weekend my friend Phil (same guy who sailed to Australia, Race to Alaska on a beach cat etc etc) had just bought himself a little 24′… Continue reading
This weekend it was nice out, so I decided to work on the spinnaker pole. It was a second hand one and was a foot or so too long, making it tricky to handle. First I cut it down to… Continue reading