Our first boat purchase was on Ebay. Yep – we bought a boat on Ebay After a professional survey and a personal look-over of the boat, we purchased a 35′ Moody. The whole thing took a matter of weeks and everything was organised between us and the seller. That being noted, the purchase price of[Read More]
Although I work hard to express the thoughts and feelings of my husband, Simon, the SailingBritican.com website is mainly based on my perspective. That being said, I’ve had various readers write me, send tweets and messages through Facebook asking if they could hear more from Simon. After asking several times I finally got Simon to[Read More]
A warning for live-aboard boaties – returning ‘home’ for the holidays can be bittersweet and this is why… Before I recount the experiences that my husband, daughter and I recently encountered during our return ‘home’ for the holidays, let me first start off with my top seven tips. My advice for those living in live-aboard[Read More]
Over the past few years I’ve been wearing clothes from various sailing brands (I won’t name names!) and have been left feeling like a tom-boy. I have polo shirts with a little sailboat emblem, blue and white striped tshirts with the name of a sail company embossed over the top and several ’normal’ t-shirts with[Read More]
This is the story of the man who inspired one of Britican’s most loved and enjoyed meals of all time – and the special woman that cooked the meal for us (over and over again). The recipe is included so read on! Introducing Skipper Mike and my lovely cousin, Loryn Bennett Let me start first[Read More]
Up until recently I never purchased anything other than skinless chicken breasts. I’m not exactly sure what my issue was. Perhaps I just didn’t know what to do with a full bird? Perhaps I didn’t like all the bones? And I must admit that the saggy chicken skin freaked me out! Needless to say, I’ve changed. This[Read More]
Every once in a while you meet someone special. Someone that goes above and beyond all expectations. Someone that fundamentally changes who you are and how you think. For us, we’ve been privilege to meet several ‘someone specials’ this year. It seems that we’ve been massively rewarded for saying ‘screw it’ to our lives and[Read More]
As we approach our seventh month of living full-time aboard a sailboat, I find myself living with yet another set of circumstances, in new surroundings, with yet another ‘routine’ to figure out. We’ve decided to winter ourselves and the boat in Marina di Ragusa, Sicily That means that we’ll stay in the marina all winter[Read More]
Imagine enjoying a nice book while curled up on the saloon sofa and having to hear brrrrrrrrrrrip every twenty minutes? Consider what it’s like when you finally start to drift off to sleep and the low murmur of brrrrrrrrrip echos through the boat? For several months I’ve been enduring the annoying sound of brrrrrrrrrip throughout[Read More]
While being laid up in Preveza, Greece with engine, generator and rigging problems our dynamic life on the sea changed to a slow life on the hard. With no car, only two restaurants and a massive out of water storage marina surrounding us, we didn’t have our usual dose of ancient archeological sites, tourist attractions,[Read More]
