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Welcome aboard! We live on a 9mx4m catamaran which encompasses three cubby holes with beds in (I wouldn’t go as far as to call them bedrooms), a tiny kitchen (galley) and cloakroom (heads), cockpit, fore-deck, swim deck, and a 1.5mx1.5m…
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Living-aboard in Times of Covid
“We’ve gone on holiday by mistake!” – Withnail and I The movie Withnail and I is a hilarious, cult status black comedy set in 1969 London about two young, co-habiting, out-of-work actors: Withnail being played by a young Richard E…
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Saving Floss – a lesson in how to repair a shipwreck
Fixing Floss, a story in photos… On 5th October, 2019 we bought Floss from a private seller in San Antonio bay, Ibiza. She’s a Catalac 9m, small fibreglass catamaran, built in 1983 in Christchurch, UK. She lived in Poole harbour…
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Ulefone Armor x5 Waterproof Phone – best sailing phone?
I’ve had a spectacularly unlucky year with broken phones, and finally came to the conclusion that, now I’m living on a boat, it wouldn’t be a bad idea to get a ruggedised, waterproof mobile phone. The Ulefone Armor range of…
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Ibiza by Boat
Floss – the story so far… We bought Floss, a nine metre Catalac catamaran, in the Autumn last year and two weeks after buying her strong winds tore her from the mooring and left her washed up on a beach…
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Test Diving the AKASO Brave 4 Action Camera
I just bought a budget action camera to take paddle boarding and snorkeling with the kids and am really enjoying testing it to it’s limits… Check out my first swim with it on YouTube here: Diving with AKASO Brave 4…
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Moving Day – Leaving our flat to move onto a boat…
I will miss the neglected but well walked woodland that flanks the dirt car park outside our balcony window. The the wind whispering in the pine trees. The dappled light, filtering green down through the dense aromatic branches, that dances…
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