Sailing my life away

Sailing my life away, part 18

6th July 2021 Ancient Mariner 3096 Comments

A SUMMER BREAK I am now away from home for about six weeks and have suspended for this issue a continuation of the story of Alchemi’s 1997 Voyage covering the leg from Oslo to Bergen. [more…]

Sailing my life away, Part 17

22nd June 2021 Ancient Mariner 3763 Comments

PIRACY – 1 I have promised to write something about piracy in the form of shortish mini-essays embedded within articles about my sailing life. Here’s my first effort. The word piracy and its associated [more…]

Sailing my life away, part 16

8th June 2021 Ancient Mariner 2955 Comments

REFLECTIONS ON PIRACY I appreciated the warm reception given to Part 15 from several people and thank them all for reading and commenting on it. I especially wish good fortune and happy sailing to [more…]

Sailing my life away, part 15

25th May 2021 Ancient Mariner 3695 Comments

COMMENT ON THE COMMENTS ON PART 14 A few readers said they appreciated my responses to comments on Part 13 so I do the same again for Part 14. Bobo provided a link for Foxoles [more…]

Sailing my life away, part 14

11th May 2021 Ancient Mariner 3585 Comments

RESPONSE TO COMMENTS ON PART 13 Once again I thank those who commented on Part 13 and particularly the three or four who correctly pointed out my mistake in inverting the description of the speed [more…]

Sailing my life away, part 13

27th April 2021 Ancient Mariner 2072 Comments

A METEOROLOGICAL DIGRESSION Life on a small yacht is lived much closer to nature than most people in developed countries usually experience. That is particularly true about weather in its many forms and I’d like [more…]

Sailing my life away, part 12

13th April 2021 Ancient Mariner 3178 Comments

PREFACE REFLECTIONS ON FREEDOM Oh dear! 12 April 2021 is the first day we’ve been let out of our cages and I’m frightened. The world outside seems a big, scary and uninteresting place – please [more…]

Sailing my life away, part 11

30th March 2021 Ancient Mariner 2594 Comments

AN OUT OF SEQUENCE REFLECTION There were more than 3,000 comments on Part 10 of my story some 22 hours after it was posted and I think that is probably a number that’s fairly typical [more…]

Sailing my life away, part 10

16th March 2021 Ancient Mariner 2680 Comments

RESPONSE TO COMMENTS ON PART 9 and a COVID DIGRESSION Yes FOXOLES I’m afraid you did miss something – perhaps my account was too oblique. The double in South Africa existed only in the [more…]