Los Christianos There’s a brief period of normality before things get weird again. After the Calima, it takes a few days for the dust to settle, and for the pace …

We are barely recognisable, sheltering in our wet weather gear. My attention is gripped by a doomed mission to extract a piece of blue fluff from a small knotted section …

La Graciosa The Calima caught us with our pants down. A violent gust, whistling through the rigging, wakes me at 4 am. I hate to get out of bed at …

Galicia We decide to pull into Ría de Muros. An endless estuary, that three years ago me and Harry first visited on Flying Cloud. We decided that the anchorage behind …

The dusty shed draws people in. My favourite thing about the restoration, is the way it has brought people together. Friendship groups have been built in the Elixir shed. People …

On The Wind: A Sailing Podcast with 59 Degrees North I’d been speaking with Andy for a few months, loosely discussing plans to record a podcast about my story with Flying …

The goal was clear, to sail around the world. I had almost made the decision to try it in Flying Cloud. Whilst in St Martin, I was torn between continuing …

The exposure is exhilarating, but it also brings fear. The dynamic environment that surrounds me forces my attention to the present. I left Cape Verde a fortnight ago, and since …

It’s as if we’ve sailed into an outrageous French dream. I perch on the panier of our three-piece foldaway bicycle, holding Harrys shoulders as he negotiates the busy, cobblestone high-street. …

For £500, I bought a sailing boat that took me to the Caribbean and back. 22 feet, with 4’6 of headroom and enough space for a surfboard. My first rung …