I left the beach at midday ready for a night out and having packed all the important things including fresh mussels, prawns, fish stock, ga...

You know how badly represented boats often are in children’s books. Backwards rigs on unstayed masts, inconsistent wind direction. We’ve all...

Just before my last bout of chemo, feeling better than I had for months, I decided to take the boat out. My brother Daniel was over from Lon...

The amount of support I’ve had during this illness has been overwhelming. Not only all the cheering comments from you lot out there (thank ...

This is a post from Ben’s partner Mónica. A year ago Ben was on his trip to Ibiza. In his words he was ‘fighting a giant octopus’ that symb...

A sense of loyalty makes me feel it’s only fair that I should let you know that I won’t be posting for a while. A health problem has taken c...

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