Stavros S Niarchos at anchor in Bangor Bay, Northern Ireland I've just got back from a five-day voyage on the tall ship Stavros S Ni...
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All those of you who have met Guy will be sad to hear of his recent tragic loss: his dreadlocks have had to go. His boss at Sailing Holidays...
So slowly we are starting to get into gear and seriously consider options, at least for the delivery trip. Sometime between 27 May and 8 Ju...
We have finally, after weeks of asking, seen Ben's A-level timetable. His last exam is 27 June, his first is 18 May, and he has a huge g...
Spring must be here, because when we go down to Suffolk Yacht Harbour, the air is filled with the sound of scraping, polishing, hammering, s...
Guy has a job at Sailing Holidays in Greece as a shore botherer. I don't know the official title, that's what Sailing Holidays used...
Festive berries Merry Christmas, and welcome to our annual report. At the end of 2009 Guy discovered that he really did like sailing a...
Please give me a job Hooray! Our son is now better qualified than we are. He is a Yachtmaster with commercial endorsement, courtesy of F...
Quick, rush out and buy a copy of December's edition of Yachting Monthly - Kalessin is on the cover, with a four-page, 100-point tes...
We are home again, and so is Kalessin this time, after a quick dash to Belgium and a better sail back than we expected. Eurostar took us ...
Eurostar and National Express East Anglia successfully got us home just after midnight on Sunday morning, with no problems at all. It was ni...
Thought: Oostende is a much more interesting place to hang out than Dover. Apart from an excellent range of the normal type of shops it also...
So after two bites at the passage from Breskens we have made it 36 miles down the coast to Oostende. The first bite, on Thursday night, wa...
I had a long conversation with weather guru Simon Keeling, and decided there was no safe window for a passage home. After a few days of chan...
One small benefit of the horrible weather is that Guy was also unable to set off on his delivery trip from Stellendam. So yesterday, after e...
Internet access has been erratic over the past week so our exciting progress has not been updated as we might wish. From Middelburg we hea...
First sight of the damaged rudder as Kalessin comes out of the water ouch! Visible bend Repairs under way at Breskens Yac...
Very quickly from my iPhone on a connection from a pizza restaurant in the middle of Middelburg... We are back in the water with the rudde...
Sunday has not been a good day so far. We wanted to stay an extra night and were asked to move to another berth just on the other side of th...
We successfully made it to Breskens on Friday morning, after a fast crossing mostly under sail. The promised occasional force 6 never materi...
Well, it's time for the summer holidays and some serious indecision about where and when to sail. I have wangled a five-week gap between...
It has been another water-focused year, but less time on Kalessin in 2009 and more on other people's boats. Sam (pictured mid-A...
Moonstruck reached St Lucia shortly after midnight local time on Thursday 10 December, with an elapsed crossing time of 17d 14h 49m 32s. The...
Here's Sam's last email from out in the Atlantic, dated Tuesday 8 December: Had an urgent invitation to a party on the foredeck in...
From Sam: We have been having some problems with connections for email transmission so you may have had a bit of a gap. Anyway, progress i...
We received two emails from Sam at 2120 today. Obviously they go into an SSB stasis somewhere: Just sea (one bird) no fish (although we do...
This update from Sam arrived at 1.37am today, but I think may have been stuck in the ether for a while. As of noon today they had about 1000...
Latest update from Sam: The big lead boats (Wallys etc) are about 850 miles off the finish and all pretty close. A record crossing is poss...
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