Riding out a bout of thirty-plus knot winds might sound like a dangerously exciting, adrenaline-packed experience, but take it from … Read More
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Day 43 – Dire Straits
Dictated by Roz at 22.48 Tarawa time and transcribed by her mother, Rita Savage. Position: -05.99745 147.96181 Today seems rather … Read More
Day 31 – Character Building Stuff
Dictated by Roz, and transcribed by her mother Rita Savage. Position: -06.88196S, 154.14308E This voyage has now definitely reached the … Read More
Day 18: Ships Passing in the Night
Dictated at 21.40 on Thursday 6th May. This blog was dictated by Roz and transcribed by her mother, Rita Savage. … Read More
Day 10 – Waltzing with the Wind
Today ended in rather discombobulating fashion. The wind decided to start pirouetting round all the points of the compass, and … Read More
No, I Said Tycoon, Not Typhoon….
Further to my blog about the perils of adverse winds and inconveniently-placed islands in the Western Pacific, I sat down … Read More
Day 67 – Follow That Whale!
I should have lassoed the whales. About noontime I heard a "whoomph" and looked towards the sound to see awhale … Read More
Day 66 – Twin Imposters
By recent standards today was a mega-result. 20 nautical miles closer tothe Equator, and 17 nautical miles closer to Tuvalu. … Read More
The Power of Positive Words: Walking for Pleasure
I was walking back from the gym today on the lane that meanders across the Cookridge golf course, my hands … Read More
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