To be bluntly honest, I have spent much of last year struggling to understand other cultures and to be understood. So much time has been spent doing this I have not coined many memorable phrases. I have certainly not started any internet grass roots campaigns like the hugely lauded success initiative from last year. New […]
Peter is one of our engineers. He was with us for a week when I started before he went home to his wife and the Birth of his first child. Hailing from Split, Croatia Peter is the latest wedge in my ever expanding worldwide net. A smart and gregarious man. Peter often pops up out […]
Well after a turbulent last day in the Maldives it was nice to get into an Airplane and get the hell back to New Zealand. Turbulence Dan? surely you are talking about sour weather? Maybe I am but some things are best left unsaid and unread.Our flight home was a two stage affair. We stopped […]
My first real charter experience has been very nice. We have had brilliant weather and a pretty nice schedule. We have four more days and then it will be time to tie things down and get aboard a plane to New Zealand. I am so excited I think I will hug the ground as I […]
Our exit from Abu Dhabi had just as much comical energy as our entrance. We said good bye to our Kiwi ship yard and headed towards the dreaded Abu Dhabi commerical port to get our passports stamped and exit. Upon arrival we were told that our fuel trucks from Dubai had been barred entry to […]
So we made it to the Maldives, I am sitting on a whole pile of things to write. Time is scarce but there is always time for Swedish! What would a Swedish gangster say to his bros if he was hanging off a Super Yacht cleaning it? EZ.
We leave Abu Dhabi tomorrow for the Maldives. Our awesome Kiwi run shipyard has kindly provided internet via a UTP cable for the last couple of weeks. Kiwis; making stuff work since always. Anyway once we leave the shipyard we will not have internet for the next little while. We will also be working like […]
Still suffering the fallout from the horse bomb we were eventually given clearance to make our way to the yacht show and civilisation. I say civilisation loosely because yacht shows are a very distorted slice of humanity and the whole Emirates experience can be very overwhelming. Large circular building that beggared my beliefs. The Emirates […]
So there we were, booted out of Abu Dhabi and anchored off shore. We were cleaning the boat and conversation was sparse. I delved into a special conversation starter that I had been saving for over a year. Feel free to use it at your next cocktail mixer or when ever there is an uncomfortable […]
A strange mental state enveloped the crew of RoMa as we neared Abu Dhabi. We had been at sea for 11 days. We had had a few hic ups, stoppages and the prospect of land did not seem entirely real. We gradually got close to land and discovered our view was limited due to a […]