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Scuba Duba with Klaus
The local resort won’t take the dive boat out with less than two divers on board. Tourist numbers are down at this time of the year, meaning that us divers…
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Island Life
Living in a self-contained unit makes you acutely aware of how much energy you use. This extends from head torch batteries (we use them for night watches, in the dinghy,…
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Reflections on Aroha’s Arrival
Every now and then… well, quite often actually, both Helen and I are struck by the “what the hell are we doing here?” question. If this trip was the fruit…
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Champagne Celebration
Over the last decade or so, my family have developed a habit of meeting up in some interesting places around the world. Happily, one of these places a few years…
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Sri Lankan Surprise!
Helen flew in from Dubai, is now on board and we’re now en-route from Uligamu (in the north of the Maldives) to Galle (in the south of Sri Lanka). The…
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Enjoying the Maldives
I thought that I’d sleep like a baby on the first night at anchor, but two squalls kept me and my imagination awake. Earlier in the afternoon, I’d taught myself…
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Maldives Arrival
We maintain an around the clock watch system and use a marine technology called an “Energetically Generated Gismo for Timing In Minutes Each Rotation”, otherwise known as an EGG TIMER,…
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Maldives – Here we come!
My friends and crew, Laith and Bernard, and I seem to have settled into our routine quite easily. It’s only really been disturbed by Laith’s bout of seasickness a couple…
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Our Longest Passage
The first leg of the journey was a 200 NM overnight passage from Aroha’s home port of Dubai Offshore Sailing Club (DOSC) to Fujairah, on UAE’s Gulf of Oman coast. …
The next chapter in life
