General advice and tips about offshore cruising, adventure sailing 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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Over the past two years, quite a few strangers have sailed with me on Apsara, recruited mostly through the Internet (on websites like Crewbay or its French equivalents). While in most cases things went smoothly, I’ve learned a lot about what makes some crews better than others. Here are a few hints if you are
The perfect crew…. Read More »