I do not drink Coke usually but during charters I become a fully fledged coke addict. In the interests of Science I shall be tallying how many cans of coke I drink over the next 10 days. Day One 3 Cans In other news I started writing what happened on our last charter but we […]
After a couple of years of not really being busy during the med summer I have finally ended up being quite busy. Quite busy for us is not actually stupidly busy but the ramifications are felt keenly by my dragon self who has had a couple of quite relaxed med summers in the past. We […]
I have been meaning to write about El Fuerte’s incredible blog which he types with his killer feet. You can read it here. http://elviajerooptimista.blogspot.com/ The really great thing about it if you are a Cowboy Espanol speaker like myself is that it translates quite well with Google translate. It is humorous and informative. Of course […]
You should know by now that I am quite enamoured with Italy. I love the landscape, the people, the decay and the shiny things. I have lived here for months aboard boats so it always feels like a homecoming when I return. It was especially vivid this time after spending months in the cultural wastelands […]
Two weekends past we ventured out into the heatwave that had descended upon the Mediterranean and caught a train eastwards to the seaside town of Santa Margherita. If you hadn’t surmised from my patently painted clues we are now on the Italian Riviera and Santa Marghertita is the closest train station to Portofino. The weather […]
Putting it out there mode. I expect this will be one of the last Deckhands log posts. The last couple of months have provided me with plenty of motivation to procure a more technical and safer existence. Being a Deckhand has allowed me to work with my hands and feet in ways I would have […]
In the last two weeks we have travelled from Barcelona to Palma around to Menorca up to Corsica and onto the French Riviera. For the last two season in the Med my cruising has been limited and it was quite invigorating to have an itinerary and the ability to take sneaky photos every now and […]
The day after the MOB incident I was reminded quite vividly of why I do what I do. The first example was a pod of Dolphins coming to say hello mere minutes after I had said it was about time my Dolphins I saw last year came and said hello. If you can not see […]
Previously when I have written about about night passages across the worlds oceans, I have raised the ever present question, what would happen if somebody fell overboard? On June the third at approximately 3:30 am my crew and I experienced this first hand. We left Falmouth on the first of June bound for Gibraltar and […]
Well we made it to Barcelona. I have a story penned about an exciting incident that happened on the way. It just needs to be edited. From here we are heading to Palma with our boss and will be moving around the Balearics. I am hoping he gets lost on a dance floor in Ibiza […]