We were making a pretty good living doing something we loved and it had been that way for years; we were happy, we were content. Then along came 2020 and overnight that lifestyle was completely taken away – no goodbye, no final lingering looks behind. It was just gone.
The arts has been hit hard by COVID-19 – long-serving institutions such as the RSC are making redundancies and when a powerhouse like that is struggling you know you are in trouble. So after the initial confusion, upset and anger it was time to decide what we were going to do next. Do we sit around and mourn for the life we’d lost? Do we fight with others for the few remaining ‘real’ jobs? Or, do we do what we have always done, something different.
We decided now was the chance to take our three young children on the ultimate geography field trip; sailing around the world.
After all, we are both of Naval descent. Hugh’s grandparents were high-ranking naval officers stationed in India, whilst my Grandad had a cushty life as a Quarter Master travelling the world and dining very well on things he’d ‘forgotten’ to sign in.
Maybe that’s why we chose a replica Dutch barge as our first home nine years ago, and have been live-aboards ever since.
هذه القصة مأخوذة من طبعة July 2021 من Yachting Monthly.
ابدأ النسخة التجريبية المجانية من Magzter GOLD لمدة 7 أيام للوصول إلى آلاف القصص المتميزة المنسقة وأكثر من 9,000 مجلة وصحيفة.
بالفعل مشترك ? تسجيل الدخول
هذه القصة مأخوذة من طبعة July 2021 من Yachting Monthly.
ابدأ النسخة التجريبية المجانية من Magzter GOLD لمدة 7 أيام للوصول إلى آلاف القصص المتميزة المنسقة وأكثر من 9,000 مجلة وصحيفة.
بالفعل مشترك? تسجيل الدخول
Midsummer on Hanö
This wonderful little island in the south-east of Sweden is a real gem off the beaten track
ADVENTURE SAILING TO HAITI
After spending two months in the Dominican Republic, Andy Brown sails west to Haïti bringing medical and school supplies to the town of Mole Saint Nicholas
In celebration of bad sailing
New owner Monty Halls tests his sailing skills with his family aboard their Colvic 34 ketch, Sobek. A recently qualified Day Skipper, Monty faces a few unexpected challenges...
Winter brings excitement and opportunity
Oddity’s double glazing, insulation and heating create a warm, homely environment as I bash out this column.
ADVENTURE MAISIE GOES TO GOES
To depart or not to depart? That is the question. Is it safer to stay, or suffer the wind and weather of a rough North Sea?
'MAYDAY, GRANDAD OVERBOARD!'
When David Richards and his grandson Henry went out racing from lowey, they didn't expect their sail to end with a lifeboat rescue
VERTUE
For a 25-footer, the Vertue has a huge reputation and has conquered every ocean. So what makes this little boat quite such an enduring success? Nic Compton finds out
Sailing siblings
Mabel Stock, her brother Ralph, a friend Steve and an unnamed paying passenger passed through the Panama Canal in December 1919 on the sturdy Norwegian cutter Ogre. They were towed to a quiet anchorage in Balboa away from the boat traffic but within rowing distance of the shore.
TECHNICAL MAINSAIL MODIFICATIONS
Safety and performance improved hugely when Mike Reynolds reduced the size of his mainsail and re-configured the systems controlling it
PILOTAGE DONE PROPERLY
Chartplotters are an amazing aid, but can detract from your real-world pilotage if not used with caution, says Justin Morton
