There are a few blogs I check regularly. One is Berrimilla sails on...
Alex Whitworth and Peter Crozier have sailed Berrimilla twice around the world doing Sydney-Hobart and Fastnet races at either end. One circumnavigation was via the North West passage. Berri is a 33 ft Brolga. The guys, both in their 60s, are interested in so many things and write funny and fascinating stories about their travels. The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy features for fans of those books. So do bird and flora pictures, ruminations of the world and the vagaries of people, the weather and life in general. Alex is presently on his way home from visiting the Mars Institute research base in the Arctic very close to the path of Berri on her northern journey. They are both so interested in everything that their blog is a continuing joy.
Sailing Leapfrog is fun at the moment as friends of Scott and Tony's sail Leapfrog to Cairns for them. The naked bottom is a bit scary but.
I liked Junk and the read is still pertinent even though the voyage is long over. It was a precursor to Plastiki and a catamaran really made of flotsam and jetsam rather than the much more highly engineered Plastiki made from carbon dioxide filled water bottles.
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