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My anchor light broke … surprisingly after only one year and 5 weeks of use; however, this was a grand opportunity to make my virgin pilgrimage up the mast. I asked my boat neighbor in port to handle the winch to get me up the mast. All my years of rock climbing aided me well here; no fear! It did feel very high however.
Dropped a sail batten in the water while in port. Cost me 50 euro to hire a diver to find it in the murky shitty port water. Well worth it … for me 🙂
Lesson learned – hold on tightly to EVERY THING while onboard. Clumsy hands = $$$
The story of a young couple who, without any prior sailing experience, decide one night over too many drinks that they are going to sail around the world. One year later they are bobbing around in the Bahamas on a thirty-five foot catamaran teaching themselves how to cross oceans in a small boat. Along their way they meet amazing people, visit locations only accessible by those on their own yachts, become television actors in Australia, minor celebrities in Puerto Rico, and generally have a great time of it all. They aren’t your average cruisers by any stretch of the imagination, and run afoul of what most cruisers perceive to be “real” cruisers. But for four years they sailed around the world on their own terms. This is their story, and is essential reading for anybody who has ever had the dream to sail around the world. This book just might push you over the edge, and the horizon.Bum
The America’s Cup, first awarded in 1851, is the oldest trophy in international sports, and one of the most hotly contested. In 2000, Larry Ellison, co-founder and billionaire CEO of Oracle Corporation, decided to run for the coveted prize and found an unlikely partner in Norbert Bajurin, a car radiator mechanic who had recently been named Commodore of the blue collar Golden Gate Yacht Club.
Academy Award-nominated writer/director J.C. Chandor (Margin Call) takes the helm for this tense adventure drama about a man (Robert Redford) who must fight for survival after being lost at sea.
Ever since seeing a photo of a sailboat in les calques of France I’ve been salivating to sail my own boat here. Definitely one of the most beautiful spots on the globe to anchor and chill. Water is cool but crystal clear. Great rock climbing and hiking. Gets massively busy on weekends and public holidays but the tourist comedy is pretty good. It’s an onslaught. Weekdays offer great silence and solitude. Anchoring an aft line to the rocks is critical otherwise you’ll find yourself scrapping on the cliffs if the wind changes. Enjoyed sharing this dream with my great buddy Patrick Carr.
Not only is this a great story but it is one of the most well crafted docos I’ve EVER seen.
Co-directors Louise Osmond and Jerry Rothwell’s historical documentary Deep Water chronicles one of the most infamous nautical tragedies of the past several decades. In autumn 1968, Britisher Donald Crowhurst, the proprietor of a down-and-out manufacturing business for marine electrical components, avowed to enter the first Golden Globe sailing competition — a nonstop, one-man circumnavigational race against eight other competitors. In financing the boat via a deal with English entrepreneur Stanley Best, Crowhurst used his house as collateral. Relinquishing the voyage, or failing to complete it, would thus have instantly rendered Crowhurst homeless and driven his family into Chapter 11. But the voyage was doomed from the start: Crowhurst failed to finish building the craft prior to his October 31st departure, but set sail just the same, and thus sealed his own grim fate. Indeed, two weeks after Crowhurst sailed out of Devon, the boat began to leak substantially; recognizing that a trip into the Southern Ocean could spell disaster, a desperate Crowhurst radioed home with indications of phony distances and falsified his logbook; he then made an illegal pit stop in Argentina to repair the boat, and joined up with the rest of the competitors on the opposite side of Cape Horn, in the Atlantic. When Robin Knox-Johnston won the overall competition, Crowhurst and Nigel Tetley went head-to-head to win 5,000 pounds for the fastest voyage; Crowhurst recognized that a victory would yield scrutiny of his logbooks and unveil his deceptions to the world; he thus intended to preserve his reputation by coming in second. He didn’t count, however, on Tetley’s boat capsizing — which led to Crowhurst’s own victory. Foreseeing disaster, Crowhurst decided to end his life by drowning himself. In telling Crowhurst’s sad story, Osmond and Rothwell intercut narration from Crowhurst’s journals, archival film, and interviews with the sailor’s family, friends, and colleagues. What emerges is a portrait of a man sinking rapidly into a pit of despair as he comes face to face with his own darkest nightmares of personal failure
