SAILING

I mention on my previous blog about having a wobble over expenditure of my boating or sailing activities.  I was chatting to an optician I went into at Lakki Leros Greece. He said the best two times with boating is when you buy and when you sell a boat in between it all cost lots […]

Wobble meaning a waver between different causes of action.  I was concerned or I supposed worried about the various bits of equipment on the boat failing. Simrad Electrical autopilot, water pump, engine starter motor.  The downside of boating is the constant problems and failures of bits of kit you have onboard the boat. Hence the reason

Taming Our Thoughts.  We humans have a problem that can take us down one big rabbit hole and transport us to different universe.  Now I’m sure like me when you sleep and there are different phases of sleep, light sleep, deep sleep, Rapid Eye Movement sleep and awake fullness.  Now RAM sleep is the time

I left Gibralta after having my mainsail altered as the battens kept working lose and the reefing lines kept fraying through due to metal crinkles causing chafe. I bought some frictionless plastic rings which the sail maker fastened to the metal crinkles.  The sail maker recommended these and I must admit they work perfectly with

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I recently listened to a podcast about how ubiquitous the use of concrete is worldwide as a building material and how detrimental it is to the environment. Concrete: the most destructive material on Earth https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-audio-long-read/id587347784?i=1000570550735i Spain seems to have had a love affair with concrete as you rarely see any form of brick built structures throughout

IN THE BEGINNING… The Rock of Gibraltar is a Jurassic Limestone promontory, formed from the shells of tiny sea creatures which compacted layer upon layer on the seabed some 200 million years ago. Between 60 and 20 million years ago movement of the Earth’s tectonic plates uplifted these layers of rock to their present position,

For a long time i’ve had a serious foreboding about humanities eventual demise. Why?  From time immoral man has constantly plunder earths natural resources be they minerals ( gold, silver, cobalt, nickel,  aluminium, iron, titanium copper tin and lead )animal species (whales fish, chickens, cows , North American bison and any other critters). The exploitation of

I started my sailing World Odyssey on the 18 April leaving Conwy North wales via Brest to NW Spain.  I’ve been in Sada NW Spain over month now longer than originally intended but with boats when it comes to maintenance one thing leads to another.  I noticed on passage from Wales to Spain that the new

When I was a wee boy growing up in the 1950’s and early 60’s it wasn’t that long after the Second World War.  The English comics of those days were full of war hero’s real and make believe one I particular liked was of a RAF fighter pilot. My early comic reads were the Beano