Sail round the world in two easy legs... NOT
My journey round the globe in a sailboat or two
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25 August 2019 | Tangier’s
21 August 2019
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21 August 2019
11 July 2019 | Colosseum Rome
05 July 2019 | Mount Ve
03 July 2019 | Trevi fountain Rome
02 July 2019 | Vatican City Rome
28 June 2019 | Ponza
28 June 2019
17 May 2019
17 May 2019
12 May 2019
25 April 2019
23 April 2019
20 April 2019
28 March 2019
13 March 2019 | Turneffe Atoll
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25 August 2019
Big waves and whales
Through the night and during my watch we had 3 to 4 metre waves rolling in from behind, made worse by a wind of 28 knots gusting to 35, making the boat ⛵️pitch and roll around all over the place, the cockpit was swamped by some of the bigger waves coming in over the rather low transom, it was also [...]
Happy birthday Charlotte
06 January 2018
I need to sing a song to my lovely niece 🎵🎷🎸🎻 Happy birthday to you, happy birthday to you, happy birthday dear Charlotte, happy birthday to you 🎹🥁🎷🎵. 18 today.
Only 500 miles away from Barbados so about 5 days sailing ⛵️ to go then we will be back on dry land. But back to today and tonight's celebrations, we will be allowed to have a beer so I will be having mine at midnight 🕛 UK time. Happy 😊 New Year to you all. The youngsters aboard decided it would be a good thing to dance 💃 up on the coach roof, which worried 😧 me just in case a rogue wave 🌊 hit us and knocked them overboard, so I stood guard ready to act, gladly I was not needed.
01 January 18
I got up to a very dull day for the first one of the new year. My coffee was extremely good, Marion made us some chocolate 🍫 brownies which were scrumptious I could have eaten more if I had been allowed. What would make today really good would be to see some dolphins 🐬 or more whales 🐋 ........ Alas no wildlife today.
03 January 18
We are less than 💯 miles away from Barbados now so only a day to go, but the crew is starting to get fractured, the skipper 👩✈️ is getting more and more intolerable and won't leave the other crew alone for some reason, he had a go at me a few days ago and I bit back so he seems to be leaving me alone. This morning we (David) caught our biggest dorado yet, it was over 1 metre long and weighed in at 10kg. I cooked part of it for lunch along with some mashed pumpkin 🎃 and potatoes 🥔 it was rather nice if I say so myself. This afternoon almost disaster struck when the forestay (cable holding the mast in place) came apart with an almighty bang, shearing the coupling off at the bottom, after around 2 hours we managed to effect a temporary repair using shackles and ropes with the winch to pull it back into place, because of this we are now motoring without any sails into Barbados. Just as the sun ☀️ was setting we had a very brief visit by a pod of about 7 dolphins 🐬 but much too quick for any pictures, it has made my day.
Only 500 miles away from Barbados so about 5 days sailing ⛵️ to go then we will be back on dry land. But back to today and tonight's celebrations, we will be allowed to have a beer so I will be having mine at midnight 🕛 UK time. Happy 😊 New Year to you all. The youngsters aboard decided it would be a good thing to dance 💃 up on the coach roof, which worried 😧 me just in case a rogue wave 🌊 hit us and knocked them overboard, so I stood guard ready to act, gladly I was not needed.
01 January 18
I got up to a very dull day for the first one of the new year. My coffee was extremely good, Marion made us some chocolate 🍫 brownies which were scrumptious I could have eaten more if I had been allowed. What would make today really good would be to see some dolphins 🐬 or more whales 🐋 ........ Alas no wildlife today.
03 January 18
We are less than 💯 miles away from Barbados now so only a day to go, but the crew is starting to get fractured, the skipper 👩✈️ is getting more and more intolerable and won't leave the other crew alone for some reason, he had a go at me a few days ago and I bit back so he seems to be leaving me alone. This morning we (David) caught our biggest dorado yet, it was over 1 metre long and weighed in at 10kg. I cooked part of it for lunch along with some mashed pumpkin 🎃 and potatoes 🥔 it was rather nice if I say so myself. This afternoon almost disaster struck when the forestay (cable holding the mast in place) came apart with an almighty bang, shearing the coupling off at the bottom, after around 2 hours we managed to effect a temporary repair using shackles and ropes with the winch to pull it back into place, because of this we are now motoring without any sails into Barbados. Just as the sun ☀️ was setting we had a very brief visit by a pod of about 7 dolphins 🐬 but much too quick for any pictures, it has made my day.
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Climbing the Honister slate mines with sister Claire
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Created 17 September 2018
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To celebrate the start of Lent. 23.30hrs start of parade
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Created 15 February 2018
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They are almost the same all over the world. But sooo much fun trying to get them bigger each time. Enjoy !!
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Created 9 February 2018
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At the top Worlds highest building (to date)
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Created 30 September 2017
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Trip to the 55 metre waterfalls with 261 steps
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Created 15 September 2017
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Hobbiton Movie set and Lord of the Rings Movie set with the WETA cave and Workshop
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Created 15 September 2017
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Walk round and jump off the Sky Tower
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Created 1 September 2017
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Yasur Volcano and Resolution bay and Village life
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Created 25 August 2017
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Koalas, kangaroos and wombats
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Created 12 June 2017
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My walk up to the summit of the 276m hill
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Created 28 May 2017
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North East coast of Australia Whitsundays island to Cairns
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Created 21 May 2017
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Another one of my bucket list to tick off. Zip Park Wales 1560m long dropping over 270m. My top speed was 78.9 MPH
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Created 8 May 2017
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