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Nautical adventures with a weird cavapoo and his totally normal human family.

06/05/2024

This time last week I responded to a request by a yacht delivery skipper looking for crew, the task, a 3 day (and night) sail from Cesme in Turkey to Preveza Greece, a journey of around 500 nautical miles.

(Nautical miles are very similar to land miles but you know, nautical, so more expensive 😂)

Now I’m sat on a plane on my way to my first proper (not training) sail, an amazing opportunity to learn real life passage making.

My imposter syndrome is kicking off big time, this is someone’s business and someone’s very expensive yacht, and most importantly our lives.

Its expected that I know what I’m doing without faffing, and although I do I know that I know how to do it all, you know there’s always that voice 😅

Thank you to my amazing wife Louise for holding down the fort and Brian for the training and the opportunities!

Fair winds and following seas, or whatever it is the proper sailors say 😊

25/02/2024

A Heron joined Rocket and I for our evening stroll tonight, he / she gracefully followed us along the beach, occasionally stopping to pose in the moonlight reflecting off the sea. (Such a poser!). It’s going to be tough leaving this place, Castletown has been good for our family, for a generation or three, especially this beach! There have been a lot of best, and also some worst days spent here. I think it’s safe to say this will always be our home port ❤️

21/02/2024

We’ve been awfully quiet recently in the Sailing Rocket camp; however there’s been a lot going on behind the scenes. When we first sat down as a family and planned out our next adventure I don’t think any of us knew quite how challenging or emotionally draining setting a plan like this in motion was going to be. But despite the anxieties, let downs, stress (so much stress!) and fears about our goals, that plan is still well and truly in motion, Today we exchanged on our house sale, this means we are finally in phase 2 (or 3?) I’m not sure anymore, but we have moved forward, and that’s all that matters. We’ve been talking to the owner of this beaut down in East Cowes, she’s all set up for bluewater sailing and is almost perfect for mincing about the high seas (with the addition of a washing machine 🙄), Alas, it’s 12 months earlier than we’d planned to look, and therefore over budget, one step at a time or so they say, buying her now would stretch us financially, and give us the burden of owning a large sailing yacht a lot earlier than expected, as ‘they’ say, a boat is a hole in the sea where you throw money! On the flip side it would mean we’d get lots of weekend practice in the challenging waters of the Irish Sea. For now, we don’t know when phase 3/4 will begin or exactly what it looks like, but we’re all eager to find out! But we’ll leave you with a quote from legendary British explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton; “Difficulties are just things to overcome after all”. We hope you’re having a great day, and if things are feeling overwhelming just remember how proud your younger self would be of you, love always, the Sailing Rocket Crew.

06/07/2023

Our namesake and soon to be star performer of a Youtube sailing channel decided to celebrate his lunchtime walk by rolling around on something dead…neither of us enjoyed the stinky walk back or his bath. Did either of us learn any lessons? Probably not. Got a cute pic though!

16/06/2023

We loved our first Tuesday sailing session with Douglas Bay Yacht Club! Looking forward to the rest of the season.

We did get dauntingly close to the Ben at one point! Luckily they know what they’re doing 😁

22/04/2023

Braveheart or Smurf….either way it’s time for a shower!

18/04/2023

WANTED: Dead or alive!

We are on the hunt for a small/medium sailing boat, 22-30ft to hone our skills on over the summer, she doesn’t have to be pretty as long as she’s fairly sea worthy.

The cheaper the better! or if you own a sailing boat and fancy trading a summers free maintenance for time on the water happy to discuss terms.

Crew are RYA certified (Day Skipper & Comp crew) and members of DBYC (or will be once they get the forms handed back in 😂)

Picture of the islands 7th best looking sailor for attention.

14/04/2023

Well, that was a week to remember, Talk about jumping in at the deep end…. The evening after the first day we all thought the dream was over, with almost the entire crew incapacitated with sea sickness on our first try, through sheer grit (and some Spanish pharmaceuticals) thankfully things got better, breakfast was kept down, knots were practiced, and practiced again, and some of them again! Points of sail drilled into our heads, “Bob” was thrown overboard and rescued a few times, passages were made, daytime and required night hours sailed…and amazingly the whole crew achieved their qualifications! Competent Crew for Kaila, Linc and Lou; and Leon got the full Day Skipper licence. We’ve come a long way from where we started, but there’s still plenty to learn. Now it’s time to chill and get the aftersún out 😅

21/12/2022

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Today was actually pretty fun, with the two young (human) crew members pre-occupied, and the furry one sleeping, the dynamic duo, “A-Team” members decided it was a good opportunity to load up the storage unit with what few possessions we’ve decided we can’t part with, we eventually got the job finished, although @louloutings has had spacial awareness training added to her list. ❤️

Douglas Bay Sailing

We loved our first Tuesday sailing session with Douglas Bay Yacht Club! Looking forward to the rest of the season. We did get dauntingly close to the Ben at one point! Luckily they know what they’re doing 😁

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