Those of you who have been following Apsara’s tracker lately might have noticed that it was in Antarctica. Not with Apsara, though, she’s safely tucket away for the winter in South Brittany. I had found a job as a first mate on an expedition boat which I joined in Brazil in October for the delivery […]
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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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The West coast of Ireland is dotted with islands that were inhabited in the early 20th century, but are now deserted, having been abandoned because access was simply too difficult. Probably the best known of these, because of the number of gifted, Irish language writers who lived there and wrote about the islanders’ harsh life,
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