Seagull looking into the window of a fish & chip shop in Weymouth, 2017.
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Today, five years ago. Somehwere in Ionian Greece.
Got stung by a wasp, cleverly hiding inside the handle of the sauna bucket.
Big wasp hurts a lot 
Reminded me of when I was pulling up anchor on the foredeck of our boat in Greece and took a step back without looking. Onto a wasp, which stung me into that soft skin between the toes.
I had the anchor out of the ground already, so couldn't stop to hold my toe. @vaviurka back at the helm was wondering why this routine operation yielded so much swearing until I limped back 
Stainless Bob tack welding our solar arch on deck of our boat in Brighton in 2016. The only part of the refit I didn't do myself.
I thought he was doing a pretty good job of this. I later found out he's got a stack of welding certifications, including one for work on nuclear power plants 
He could weld stuff other welders called impossible, like a new exhaust pipe into the rotten aluminium body of a diesel heater.
It is actually quite impressive to see the South Atlantic circular sail we did the past two years. #sailing #SouthAtlantic #cruisingLife #map
Bad cat. That's her name. Got a passport saying so.
Found by a friend, as kitten, in a dumpster, inside a tied up plastic bag. He adopted her as ships cat.
Loves to get greasy and once snuck aboard a French sailboat, got spooked, jumped into an open locker and disappeared into the voids of the boat, reappearing in a different locker, covered in black engine oil.
The frenchman was grateful, he could never get in there to clean the spill he said.
The iconic rock of Gibraltar, doing its thing:
Pushing up the warm, moist easterly (levanter) seabreeze and cooling it to condensation temperatures, creating a dense cloud that looms over the city. Local British weather at the southern tip of Spain.
Its other thing was to provide a high cannon emplacement overlooking the low plains of Spain, making Gibraltar unconquerable through history and inspire the Montgolfier brothers.
#whitbyBrewerSailboats great zoom call with a handful of Whitby42 folks. Talked boats, cruising, bow thrusters, and weather.
The parts needed to fix our engine (the piston rings, although we might need to replace the pistons as a whole) are not available anywhere in Brazil. They can be ordered from Japan but would take at least 150 days to arrive. We are halfway our 90 days visa and even a 90 day extension wouldn’t get us there. Plus we’d miss the safe time of year to continue our trip. Do now we are considering crossing an ocean without an engine. Crazy? Maybe. Doable? I think so. #cruisingLife #engineTrouble
The car is packed for the big, official move onto SV Loka this weekend. We still have a lot to do to clean out and sell the land house, but this weekend marks the big transition to the #sailboat being our home. #cruisinglife #fulltimeliveaboards #sailboatLife
Just came across @SustainableSailing on Mastodon and it’s so close to our (Kay & Dimi) mission: to sail in a sustainable way, both financially and environmentally. Our trick to pushing the goal of “sailing when retired” forward was to retire early. We are still figuring out how to make that financially sustainable. 
#cruisingLife #sailing #sustainability
August 2022. Rowing back from the Island of Coll (of #Coll & Tiree weather fame) to our #Nicholson31 #yacht which was on a swinging mooring. Bitten by #midges a lot while in the dinghy!
A beautiful sunset at the #fakarava south pass. And finally a day without rain. #FrenchPolynesia #tuamotus #cruisinglife
Glacier Bay National Park & Preserve is by far one of my favorite parks. It's so massive and mostly untouched because the vast majority of visitors come in on a boat of some kind and don't stay long.
#travel #TravelPhotography #Alaska #paddle #kayak #kayaking #mountains #National Park #GlacierBay #NPS #WaterSPorts #paddling #rainbow #morning #adventure #cruise #cruising #CruisingLife #POTD #PhotoOfTheDay #calm #active #outdoors #Nature #NaturePhotography #bay #fjord #color #cloud #weather