General advice and tips about cruising and voyaging under sail
Completing a 3 days Three Day Basic Safety Training with the Irish fishery board (BIM) was an opportunity for me to revisit the subject of safety at sea, on which, as a fleet manager for Ireland largest sailing school, I had been lecturing regularly many years ago. This led me to review some of the […]
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Here’s the recipe that we use offshore on Apsara. a cup of rye sourdough starter (in theory, a wheat sourdough starter could work, but rye sourdough starters are much more tolerant of the conditions encountered on board a boat. If you can only get wheat sourdough, make bread every day for a few days following
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After a few weeks in the Canaries, it was time to head back North. Rather than going the direct route via the Madeira archipelago, I decided to take the scenic route via the Azores… And as I couldn’t find anyone mad enough to sail the North Atlantic on a 36 footer at this time of
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