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Sri Lanka – Touch and Go
After four days and four nights sailing (not quite biblical…), we arrived in Galle in the wee small hours. It was a busy night playing chicken with the big (and…
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Trains, Planes and Automobiles
Well, I didn’t quite use all forms of transport to arrive in the Maldives but after a 12 hour journey it started to feel that way. Bryan couldn’t quite resist…
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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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Ground Support
Bryan suggested that I add a blog entry about life at the other end of the Maldives mission, otherwise known as ‘Ground Support’. In reality, I think ground support was…
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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
