I can see James out of the corner of my eye. He has just crawled out of the small space underneath the cockpit sole, and is halfway into the saloon wardrobe. Now he’s fiddling around in the cubby hole next to the chart table.
He is, after over a year of it sitting in its box, [...]
So, it’s just gone midnight on the 21st July 2010 and it’s official - the first Clipper 09-10 Round the World Yacht Race boats have this minute arrived back in their home marina, Royal Clarence in Gosport, Portsmouth Harbour, after spending 10 months at sea racing 35,000 with around 400 Joe Public crew members.
Wednesday had [...]
Here’s a short poem I just stumbled across, forgotten I’d written it some time last season…
Coming alongside the fuel pontoon
we decided to have another go
as for some reason we didn’t know
the wind was having more of an effect on us
that we had expected.
There was a bloke waiting to grab our lines
but we calmly went round [...]
Christmas Eve: for some, the opportunity to do some hectic last-minute Christmas shopping; for others, time to go to the pub with friends; and then there are those who spend it relaxing with family. Well, and there’s James, who spent it with his head in the heads and his sight firmly on shite. Yes, the [...]
I have just updated the ‘S/Y Milestone’ page (found on the link bar at the top of this page) with a guided tour of Miley, and a list of her particulars. I enjoyed writing the tour so much that I felt it deserved a blog post of its own to try and give it some [...]