The Cynical Sailor & His Salty Sidekick

I’ve always found that even though there are a gazillion people living on planet Earth, in many ways it is very a small, small world. Ba...

I'm not sure how widely the term "curtain twitchers" is used. I first heard it when we lived in Scotland and it was used to de...

If you're only going to go to one island in the Hauraki Gulf, you might want to pick Rangitoto. It is a volcanic island which last e...

I'm 40 something and, as we get ready to set off cruising full-time, for the first time in my life I find myself thinking about things l...

One of the many hidey-holes that we stash our food in on the boat. What Scott might call "overkill", I call super-duper pro...

We took our boat in to the  Floating Dock at Westhaven Marina in Auckland to be hauled out and get the bottom cleaned off a few weeks ago. ...

We're getting ready to buy a new (or new to us) boat back in the States next year so we've been researching various options that fit...