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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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Back to the Maldives
We arrived in Gan at about 1 pm today and are now at anchor in the small harbour near the Equator Beach Resort. We reached our first sight of Maldivian…
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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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Fishing Boat Pinball
We are making good progress back to the Maldives, although the wind is coming from the exact direction we would like to be heading so we are combining long tacks…
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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,…
The next chapter in life
