S.V. Raggamuffin | First Sail It’s a big deal to have spent 2 years in the hot, in the cold, on the hard, covered in paint, covered in...

Gray. Everywhere. The sky, the water, gray, no horizon, just more gray. The sun had just set and the only reason I knew that was that...

Time. It's one of those things that I've taken for granted my entire life. And now here I am, 52, at the cliche mid-life and time has...

A symbol of hope, security and stability. The anchor was born with the original purpose of securing ships to the seabed in the midst of a...

It's a funny thing; this journey of trying to get my sailboat in shape for my big adventure. I've met some really cool and interesting...

STORM FRANCIS - Episode 7 Strangford Lough and its tides was to be our next adventure, an exciting opportunity to explore a sea loch in...

I can truly find bliss in this seafaring life in the form of companionship of my husband, time to read, reflect and marvel at the colours...

Despite the pandemic we were committed to slipping the lines and embark on our new life of fulltime cruising. We left Whitehaven on...

Interview with author Carole Fontaine. Carol discusses her book S.A.I.L above the Clouds.

Sailing to Bahamas for winter isn’t unusual. Is it Newsworthy? Is it worth reading? I don’t know. And I don’t really care. And here’s why...

Crewing with Gary, my husband, on a passage from Whitehaven to A Coruna in Northern Spain seemed a perfect way to test my resolve.

Easter 2017 and the dream of sailing oceans was becoming our reality but did we have the necessary knowledge, skills and attitude...

I’d been racing maybe twice? Maybe three times when I heard this phrase. This “PIE SHAPED WEDGES” being shouted from the mouth of one man...

Our dream was to sail the oceans later in 2020 and you have to start somewhere. It was a crazy idea I know but why not...

Don’t worry about what you don’t know or what someone watching you will think. Worry more about not trying.

They used to call him Cap'n. He was my biological father, but people called him Cap'n. Details beyond that are, shall we say... cloudy....