Author: alex
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Home-Schooling Afloat
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 u-shaped seating area ‘saloon’ which serves equally as sofa, dining table, bar, workshop, cinema, office…
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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 Grant. In an attempt to escape the drugs and rock and roll drop-out culture of…
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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 for many years before being sailed to Greece, where the previous owners bought her and…
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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 phones are waterproof to 30m, provided you haven’t damaged the casing or left the access…
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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 nearby with one hull gauged open from bow to stern, looking very much like she’d…
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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 and a Barracuda You can also SUBSCRIBE to our channel and we will be uploading…
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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 on the closed curtains like a delicate shadow puppet show. The myriad of wildlife on…