So yesterday I started crunching numbers to figure out if I was going to be able to meet my target leave date of next September. I tried to be conservative and do the ‘worst case’ scenarios for everything, and I’m… Continue reading
These are the top four (4) things that pretty much changed my life… *dramatic pause* 1) This plastic bag. That may sound dumb at first but WAIT! At dock, using the standard spring line config (a line that runs from… Continue reading
My birthday was this weekend as I turned the ripe old age of 34. I celebrated by trying to play a game of football, but spraining my ankle in the warm up, not even getting to play in the game.… Continue reading
Since returning from the Vancouver Island trip, I’ve been pretty low energy, concentrating on keeping my expenses down (I’ve ditched the car! RIP Lola, you will be remembered), eating healthily and resisting the temptation just to eat ice cream and… Continue reading
After a month of sailing around, it was back to my job *cue sad trombone noises* Also, as if to emphasise that summer and fun is over for the foreseeable future it began to rain. A bunch. This meant I… Continue reading
After having had a week or so to mull over the trip, I’ve drawn the following conclusions: I need to get better at provisioning. Originally Emma and I were going to share the duty but after a short chat she… Continue reading
Leaving Hot Springs Cove, we were going to try to push through to Ucluelet. Again, no wind, thick fog and lots of big swells, and at around 90mins North of Tofino I was suddenly hit with an attack of the… Continue reading
We left Winter Harbour at around 9 after an extremely slothful morning and headed off to see how far we could get. Lotsa swells and for the first bit we had them hitting us broadside, most uncomfortable. Eventually we got… Continue reading