The actual art of dodging Pirates in the gulf of Aden is as close to being in a war as I would like. We joined a full convoy, adopted aliases and basically made like a floating submarine for four days. We missed our Chinese convoy and were going to have to travel through pirate alley […]
When I last left you. It was an edge of the seat ending. The weather had turned, we had missed our convoy and we were about to lose our internet connection. The weather was really something. We had a wind of up to 50 knots blowing straight at us and 5 meter waves to match. […]
So it has been a while. A lot of water has been under the hull. Over the next week or so I will be retroactively writing up stories from the voyage. I have a few planned, here are the headlines in no particular order. Running the pirate gauntletThree rounds with NeptuneEl Fuerte the horse killerSo […]
The good news. We still have internet. The bad news. We are heading into some bad weather. We are probably going to miss our military convoy. There has been a successful attack in the last 48 hours. More good news. Actual drama unfolding on the high seas imminent.
A sad April fools a few months early. Our GPS freaked out today and we travelled 24,000 nautical miles and ended up in the Pacific tantalisingly close to New Zealand. Fuck New Zealand is awesome. I have been giving New Zealand a bit of thought recently. We are going home in a couple of months […]
Our exit from the Suez canal was a bit smoother than our entrance. Our second to last pilot made off with a guest hair dryer and his compatriot had an interesting way of disposing used toilet paper. We will be better prepared for our return passage. We made a night passage to Abutig marina and […]
The Pirates Pilots of Egypt. My first on the ground memories of Egypt will always be confusing. I enjoy being bamboozled as much as the next drunken panda but Egypt was particularly puzzling. We had just finished a three day passage from Malta to the northern tip of the Suez. Port Said. Funny play on […]
With the fine people of Sweden firmly under my iron fingers I thought it was a good time to turn my attention to another country. Spain beckons and I have already seen huge readership gains with over three new visitors this year. David joined our boat just before we moved on board. A native of […]
With nothing huge happening and a lot of little things passing by I thought it was time to write a deckhands log. My definition of huge might have changed a bit. So don’t be surprised if you are surprised. We left Malta on Tuesday night. It was a lot smoother than our exit from Italy […]
The last week has been hectic. We are due to leave for Egypt today and we are going to lose internet coverage in two days. Somebody think about the children! We had an internet outage on Sunday. It is amazing how quickly people get tetchy without internet! I have worked around the fault for now […]