As mentioned below, I finished my contract with Norwich Union yesterday. I worked there for eight and a half years, left in November, went b...
We have permission to take Ben out of school for two half-terms so that he can be home- (or boat-) educated. Fortunately his school, Thomas ...
Guy has been offered the voluntary post of summer centre instructor at the Fellowship Afloat Charitable Trust , down in Tollesbury, Essex. H...
I needed to install my various useful bits of sailing software on to my laptop. I have a chart viewer which reads the same electronic chart ...
An idle few minutes with Photoshop at work today produced this - the grand plan. Thoughts or comments, anyone?
Why do men have this thing about perfect woodwork? To me, it's logical to focus on doing the most vital things now, for example getting ...
I spent most of yesterday (Saturday 16th April) down in the bilges of Kalessin trying to soak up a diesel spillage with a couple of premat...
Our first coat of antifouling (the paint which stops barnacles sticking to the bottom) went on yesterday. It is a slightly unattractive pink...
Normally for our summer sailing we hire a liferaft. This isn't really an option for this trip as bringing an enormously heavy liferaft, ...
Too much grovelling in cockpit lockers is very bad for you. Sam went to the doctor today after several days of agony and was diagnosed with ...
Lucilla (my sister) asked what date we were leaving, having accurately calculated from the posting below (La Coruna Dreaming) that it should...
Sam has just returned from spending a day on the boat. He says we won't have much time for chocolate eggs and home diy over Easter - it...
Kalessin of Orwell in her home berth at Suffolk Yacht Harbour on the river Orwell. We've had to give up this berth (you pay for the whol...
It's two months and one week until Camilla, Sam, Guy and Ben are due to head south for France, Spain, Portugal and the Mediterranean in ...