Oh dear. This blog is supposed to be about me rowing across the Pacific.But today I haven't been me – I have been Michael Palin following in thefootsteps of Ernest Hemingway. That's problem with a really good book.It totally sucks … Continued
Monthly Archives: June 2009
Day 28 – Comrades in Oars
Day 28 – Comrades in Oars Since Nicole sent me some excerpts from the Golden Gate Endeavour blog,I've been thinking quite a bit about my friends Chris Martin and MickDawson as they row across the north Pacific from Japan to … Continued
Day 27 – Paddlers Passions (and another pet peeve)
Day 27 Paddler's Pet Pacific Passions As the flipside to yesterday's gripes about my pet peeves, here are someof the compensations to life on an ocean rowboat (and in case this isall a bit too Pollyanna for you, skip to … Continued
Day 26 – Pet Peeves of the Pacific
Day 26 – Pet Peeves Generally I like to look on the bright side of life, focusing on thepositive rather than the negative. But once in a while it does me goodto have a quick rant, and a problem shared … Continued
Day 25 – With A Little Help From My Friends
Seems that so far this voyage's blog has been dominated by boobies,bums, and bird poo. I felt it was time to raise the tone a bit, and talkabout my boat – or, more specifically, some of the people who haveworked … Continued
Day 24 – Danger: Low Flying Fish
This morning when I went out on deck, it was dotted with the littlecorpses of about 10 flying fish. It was my solemn duty to give them aburial at sea, by picking them up and rather unceremoniously chuckingthem over the … Continued
Day 23 – 10 Adventures Before I Die (Or Get Too Decrepit)
I rowed for a couple of hours this morning, and took a real drenching –from waves over the side of the boat and from a passing rain squall.Normally this would have been very welcome – some nice fresh rain tocool … Continued
Day 22 – Getting Sun Where The Sun Don’t Shine
Phew, relieved to log on to email and find I'm not up on any obscenitycharges after yesterday's rather risque rump romp photo… Today I took a day off from rowing to allow my poor suffering backside achance to recover. But … Continued
Day 21 – International Day of the Bottom
Day 21 – International Day of the Bottom Just the other day (World Oceans Day, I think) I was remarking howimportant it is to have days of appreciation for things that gounappreciated the remaining 364 days of the year. Well, … Continued
Day 20 – There’s No Business Like Row Business
Today was my best day's mileage so far – according to the ship's log(writing that makes me feel like Captain Kirk) I've covered 42 nauticalmiles in the last 24 hours. Very pleasing, although I deliberately don'tget over-jubilant about such things … Continued