For anyone who hasn’t been following the news lately, this year UN Climate Change Conference (COP26) is held in Glasgow.  My son Theo, who is  very active in the Climate movement and had already attended the COP 25 in Madrid, was attending the UN sponsored Youth4Climate conference in Milan as one of Ireland’s representative, and […]

Coralie, my French crew, joined me in Westport in the afteroon of Saturday 2nd October, and we left straight away to spend the night at anchor in the lee of Dorinish island rather than alongside the floating pontoon in Westport, where it can get choppy. The newly installed hard top over the companionway proved a

Apsara had spent a few days in Cleggan as I was getting some electrical work done on the boat by a local electrician.   I had a crew for the first leg of the journey. Sam, a young sailor from Clifden who had helped me put the boat in the water, wanted to build miles