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Newtown Creek - a solo mission
Time for a confession. It’s been a ridiculously long time since I took Lucice (our Sadler 26) out for a sail. The last time Elpie and I tried, we had a nightmare getting off the dock. Embarrassingly caught out by a strong ebb tide and Lucice’s reluctance to go backwards in a straight line to begin with. We decided not to continue. This time though, I was sensible, I waited for the slack water just before high tide, which would also give me the Solent current to carry me west to Newtown Creek once I exited the marina. …
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Mexico Day 7
Woke at 0730 after distintly less good sleep than the previous night. Still feeling ok though and as is now traditional Dewey was making coffee. Reinvigorated by said coffee, I wrote up the last bit of yesterday’s blog sitting in the sun - which rapidly changed to dense fog as the moist sea air was blown onto land. This should burn off in an hour or two if the prevoius days are any guide. …
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Mexico Day 6
Woke at 0700 after 8.5hrs sleep. The sun is shining and Dewey is making coffee. I feel goddamn fantastic! Elpie makes a call home to talk to Ed who’s struggling to change his tickets to Malaysia to the right name - he’d given Eddie as his first name. I hope he can get it changed, the booking agent want him to cancel and re-book, but he’d only get 25% of the money back from cancelling and likely the next flight would be 4x more expensive. …
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Mexico Day 5
My 0000-0200 shift passed without drama. The sky’s were dark and my vision a little sleep blurred but still able to make out a tiny bit of bioluminescence in the boat’s wake. Handed back over to Elpie and went to bed. …
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Mexico Day 4
Up at 0600 to visit the heads and then go on deck to see the last of the sunrise. Nature provided again with Pelicans making optimal use of ground effect and the daily whale show taking place. …
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Mexico Day 3
Woke at 0700 to another beautiful morning at Isabel. The sea state had become a little too rolly for comfort so Brady took the decision to move to a calmer spot. …
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Mexico Day 2
Woke at 2345 (boat time as we’ve moved time zones) for my shift. I went up on deck to sea an incredible star-filled night. I took over from Jim who explained the current situation, the main had been flogging in the light wind and rolling seas, So Brady dropped the main as I came on and went on deck to tie it neatly. Brady left with the true skipper’s admonishment to wake him for anything at all. Knowing I would was the only way he could get any sleep. …
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Mexico Day 1
Start: 20°44.916’ N 105°22.649’ W …
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Mexico Day 0
We’re off on an adventure! We booked a trip a while back to sail from La Cruz to Mazatlan on the Mexican Pacific coast. The trip is with Cruisers Academy, run by YouTube legends Brady and Blue of SV Delos fame. Brady will be our skipper whilst Blue looks after their beautiful new daughter Kaia back home. …
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The Lodes Way
This section of the Lodes Way, itself part of the NCN11, is a quiet 7.65km backroad + gravel path route from Lode to the beautiful National Trust nature reserve at Wicken Fen. [gpx]: …
Human speed is about truly experiencing the world around you. Walking, sailing and cycling let you see, hear, and feel a place in a way that driving never can. These slower methods of travel give you time to notice details - the way light hits a tree, the sounds of a neighborhood, the texture of the ocean.