Day 246: The Blue Desert
So then your humble narrator found himself back on the high seas. The Reol was tiny – the smallest vessel I’ve been on so far, just about 7 meters in…
Days 198 to 201: The Odyssey Reloaded
Day 198: The Approach17 July 2009Wahwahweewah. Friday! Are we still at sea? It would appear so. No sign of Dakar yet, but the GPS was insisting it was less than…
Days 194 to 197: Dolphins and Doldrums
Day 194: Ray The Ray13 July 2009Wow! I can honestly say that I have never seen anything like this before. There was not one iota of a smidgin of a…
Days 190 to 193: The Great Escape
Day 190: On The Beach 9 July 2009 Perhaps I should have mentioned this before – Val, the guy who was ‘helping’ me last week is now demanding that I…
Day 153: Ninjas and Heroes
As I kid, I was always HACKED off that the BBC in their infinite wisdom altered the name of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles to the Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles…
Day 152: Famous Last Words
I got to the fisherman's beach just after midnight - there she was, the Mustapha Sy - a wooden long boat just two metres wide that the Vikings may have…
Day 105: Chivas Regal vs. The Pirates
Had a good chat with Chivas Regal, the cook, today - remarkable chap, last year the boat he was on from Kenya to Romania was captured by Somalian Pirates and…
Day 104: The Guts of the Ship
This isn't even funny anymore. The sea isn't even that rough - the Gulf Stream in a little yacht was much, much worse. And yet I've been sick three times…
Day 103: Another Monday Comes
Oh my word, I feel ROTTEN! Spent a good part of today in bed, did a little editing, but it's hard to concentrate when you feel two seconds away from…
Day 102: Heading East for Easter
Aside from our heading, the least Easterly Easter of my life - no chocolate eggs, in fact no chocolate at all! To be honest with you, I spent most of…