Solo Circumnavigation — Sailing Sea Bird Around the World
When most of the fleet tacked, I kept going straight. Solo around the world looking for horses on a boat with water pipe masts. These are my sailing journals going back to 1998.
Posts are in chronological order, oldest first.
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Caribbean Christmas Under Sail: Aboard Sea Bird in Antigua
Merry floating Christmas (Melinda Penkava photo) Oriental, NC Traveling the Texas High Plains by wagon this holiday season, I think back to Christmas on the high seas. Click here for…
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How I Quit My Office Job to Sail Around the World
Until my late twenties, my life went like this. Boats, horses, something else, boats, horses, something else, boats, horses… There was the jockey phase, the Alfa Romeo mechanic phase, the…
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Droving Cattle in New Zealand: Old Slide Film Photos from My Circumnavigation
January 5 was my birthday and it got me looking back through my old slides. Funny how life changes. Thirteen years ago I was living in New Zealand chasing cows…
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Sky Water: Catching Rain on a Sailboat with No Water Tank
Last week I wrote about how my wife Julia and I lost water at our cabin and I needed to figure out what was wrong. This week, I was going…
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Sailing Back to Horses
I have not always traveled by mule. When I was thirty, I decided that sailing around the world would be more interesting than sticking with my office job. I bought…
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Lessons from Bogging Hodge the Horse in New Zealand
Many years ago (2001) I was helping Allan Crawford muster cattle on the North Island of New Zealand. The cattle were scattered through a low range of mountains covered in…
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Becalmed in the Doldrums: Sailing the Atlantic Alone
This week, I had a great chat with Atlas Obscura co-founder Dylan Thuras about what it’s like to be stuck in the Doldrums. When I say the Doldrums, I don’t…
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Atlas Obscura Releases Podcast About My Time in the Doldrums
What’s it like to float alone for a week in the Doldrums, one of the remotest stretches of ocean on planet Earth? This week Atlas Obscura released an interview I…
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