At the end of 2016 I I started sending a weekly newsletter about sailing. You can find it here. Surprisingly I’ve actually stuck to it and I’ve got 650 subscribers now which is pretty cool. They’re chatty too and...
After Tom’s late night cable routing endeavours we finally called it a night at about 0130. Whilst doing our teeth we noticed the water pump making a strange noise, almost like it wasn’t getting enough power. That...
I can safely say we’ve walked more in the past 4 days than we have in the last 6 months combined. Today was another 24,500 step marathon which had us walk around Badalona in the morning (more errands: things to...
Today was another early morning, this time an 8am appointment in the city to get Tom an MRI scan. After waiting for the rain to stop we walked towards Gracia. It’s a pretty area of Barcelona having initially been a...
Yesterday (Monday) we had a day with loads of errands to run. We got up super early – way earlier than when we were still working – and took the metro into the city. On the list was me getting a blood test...
After having spent all day yesterday fretting about the consequences of leaving Schibsted, after a decent night sleep I felt good again this morning. Being able now to be involved in getting the boat ready is really...
Tired from not getting much sleep we got up late then went for a wander around the little boat show happening in Badalona marina, and found someone who could come and check the tension of our rig next week. After 14...
Today was the day, my last day at Schibsted! In the months leading up to today I’d been imagining how I’d feel when I woke up. Hugely excited most likely! I got up and went for a shower. The weather was sunny but...
Today was a day with not a lot of boat jobs, or one massive boat job, depending on how you look at it. Our friends were planning to buy a boat and I went to join them as they got the survey done. We drove about an hour...
Today started really slow. After saying goodbye to our neighbours (they headed off to Mallorca this morning) my plan was to continue working on the chartplotter, and secretly I was hopeful I’d be able to finish...
Today was the first day where I had my old life back – well the life I had between leaving my job and becoming a boat yardie. Camilla headed off to work (only 4 days left to go!) and I joined our good friend...
We had a lovely weekend with my Dad and Sue in Barcelona, and today (a public holiday in Spain) we went to meet them for an early breakfast before they flew home to Periana (it’s about an hour north of Malaga in...
After 16 days of around the clock work and the last minute scare over not having mixed the bloody epoxy primer, today Bini finally went back into the water! We got up early and I headed over to the marina whilst Camilla...
I woke up, having had a terrible nights sleep to find Camilla awake already. Seems she’d had the same nightmares as me. We went for breakfast then the first order of duty was to try to get a hold of Seajet; the company...
Hmmm … so I just realised we might have made a massive mistake. Today was the day we wanted to get the boat moved so we could paint the five patches that were underneath the supports that Bon Bini sits in. I went to the...
