My first true blog.

Dear everybody,

I have never blogged before, as they say in health promotions that is no excuse.



I am a 39 year old disabled man, disabled in a look at the expression on the midwives face kind of disabled, who has decided to try and sail single handed from the UK to the Caribbean with very little, make that, No experience in an old Westerly just to prove that the surgery that I undertook as a child was money not wasted.

Thankfully a few company's have supplied some much needed equipment(I'll talk about that a bit more later) and so far nothing has broken. Well my gearbox broke due to something in the water but that was insured.

I left last year late in the season from Poole and made it all the way to Roscoff when I lost my bottle to tackle the Bay of Biscay at that time of year and decided to wait till now and have another bash.



As I have already said the only experience I have is passing my Tidal Day Skipper with the RYA and buying the Westerly with the last of my compensation money, and that's a story for another day too.



If anyone out there knows of cheap, free, sympathetic moorings I hope they will let me know.