Night watches on a long passage give you a lot of time to think about things.  My problem is that I don’t always remember everything when I get around to…

Bryan’s morning text reads…“Nice night sailing although a bit windy to start.  Up to 22 knots now back to around 10 knots.  Lots of traffic.  Beautiful sunrise – very pink.”…

We got a routine call from the Indian Navy last night, asking vessel, crew and route details.  This kind of call is quite standard although I always get a bit…

Aroha and her able crew are making steady but slow progress back but are being hampered by an uncomfortable swell and the wind persisting from the direction they are trying…

I have just finished reading a book about one of my heroes, intrepid explorer James Cook, and our voyage seems tame in relation to what he accomplished.   We have bemoaned…

Male is a medium sized Asian city on speed.  It’s a two by a two-kilometre piece of compact real estate where everything happens faster, noisier, smellier… than anywhere else in…

We left Nilandhoo in the afternoon a couple of days back.  The timing of high tide and the shallow depths we were anchored in dictated when we moved – needing…

One of the aspects of this type of cruising that I really enjoy is the planning… the preparation… the deciding where to go and when.  It’s all fine and dandy…

We left Kolumafushi and the Huvadhoo atoll on Friday and sailed (well, motored) overnight to arrive in Laamu atoll yesterday mid-morning.  Our experience in Huvadhoo had been largely positive and…