I’m sure the decision to take one or more stranger(s) on board your boat for an ocean crossing isn’t one you haven’t taken lightly. You know that you are going to live with this / these person(s) for weeks on end, in close proximity, and without any possible escape from one another’s company. A crew […]
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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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It’s two o’clock in the morning, and Apsara, pulled by her two boomed out jibs, is running at almost seven knots under the moon with the electric pilot at the helm. We dropped the mainsail this afternoon. We won’t be hoisting it again for more than a week: there are more than two thousand miles
The purring fifteenths…. Read More »