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When I bought Samsara, she came with two 100-litre fibreglass water tanks tucked away under the bunks. This was a huge improvement – Largo only had a single 25-litre stainless tank in the bilges (it once lasted me for 32 days).
But Samsara’s tanks leaked around the inspection hatches – as soon as the boat heeled, you could see it pouring out.
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I had better do some explaining.
This blog has always been free – and I have been proud of that. I write it because that’s what I do. Even if nobody took the trouble to read it, I would write it. I have written stuff for more than 70 years. I feel more comfortable writing than talking. Since this blog began in 2017, there must be hundreds of thousands of words ...
Going ashore (finally). Credit: Seamus Breen on the pilot boat
“You’re not stopping in Bermuda? Or the Azores?”
It was something people had trouble processing – to sail directly from Sint Maarten in the Caribbean, directly to Ireland.
“But that’s, what? Four thousand miles?”
“About 3,500, actually. It’s what I ...
Nobody is more surprised than me.
The oldmansailing Instagram account is now closing in on 90,000 followers. Across all social media platforms, the short videos I have been posting have encouraged well over 100,000 people to follow oldmansailing in one form or another.
Who would have thought…
The trouble is, I have always been rather disparaging o...