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I was living the dream. The wind was twenty knots, but it was perfectly aligned for my approach to the berth. The late evening…

Eternal Father, strong to save, Whose arm hath bound the restless wave, Who bids the mighty ocean deep, It’s own appointed limits keep; O…

Promotor Fidei, Punk. It has been one week since the anointing of King Charles III. King Charles the sausage-fingered. Sadly, William did not turn…

I’m back at sea. Well, I’m in Whitby now, demobilising from the aforementioned dive job in Bridlington Bay. No, we didn’t kill the Whale…

I promised at least one reader of this stack a little bit of career advice a while ago. As I’ve spent the past week…

Conclusion. Happy Saint George’s Day, fellow dragon slayers! We have plenty of dragons to slay today. The borders are open. The pound and the…

Well, my friends. I’ve been on board my new ship now for twelve days as Master, and for about six of those I’ve been…

I drafted this article after I’d been in a metaphorical decompression chamber for about a week, since leaving that last ship. A little 25…

It has been over a month since I posted. Apologies to loyal readers expecting their weekly tot. It has simply been too difficult to…

Apologies for the slight delay in this (last) week’s edition of the blog. I’ll owe y’all one. I have been repositioning a little workboat…

Good morning, all. I hope you are well. I certainly am. The kids were off school this week for their October break. For non-Scots,…

Apologies for the delayed article. I’m afraid I’ll be a little brief this week due to contracting a lovely little pathogen from my children…