In 2008 we thought that we’d take an 18-month hiatus from working as paid crew to buy a boat in California and sail it to Australia. It took us three and a half years to get to Fiji, and by then we well and truly knew that Kate was our home, not just a hiatus….
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Abandoning Ship, Cooking up a Storm, Keeping Your Cool and Solar Gadgets to Keep you Connected; Article Roundup
There is an old sailors mantra that says you should always step up into the liferaft, or in other words abandoning the vessel should be the very last resort. We had a chance to inspect our Viking life raft when we had it serviced in Fiji. Sitting inside the small, orange inflatable compartment was sobering;…
