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After our journey from hell in the French mountains, surely the Gods were going to look on us favourably as we left Palma for France. Well, it turns out they weren’t. Honestly, we couldn’t make this stuff up…. Here...
Whilst waiting for the ferry to leave Palma we had time to reflect on our first regatta together. Mainly because the queue for the ferry was about 3 hours long. Yes, believe it or not this is actually a queue (see if you can spot Jonny)...
Team Madcap Sailing
Stuck in a hotel room without any appliances, and only one restaurant open in the entire town, we resort to desperate measures - attempting to cook our entire meals in a 16 euro steamer we picked up from Netto.
Warning - ONLY watch this if you have 10 minutes of your life to kill!
Since our post about the new Zhik Trapeze Harness yesterday, we had a lot of feedback demanding a more close-up photograph of the harness. Like the muppets we are we forgot to take a close-up pic, but fear not, we have managed to uncover a secret photo of the pre-production prototype...
Our performance in Palma doesn’t really deserve its own entry (we posted a very mediocre result, but the only way is up from here!). So instead, here’s a topic that truly deserves editorial space. We’ve got the inside scoop on this one, this is almost a world-exclusive. On t...
If you are a sailor and have been on the internet for the past fortnight it will have been hard to miss the launch of Jon Emmett’s new sailing book, Be Your Own Sailing Coach. ...
The journey from St Chely to Palma is now over (we’re officially on Palma soil and we even went sailing today). But, the journey wasn’t without incident. The stormy weather has been on the news over here. Lorries being blown off the road, winter blizzards leaving cars stranded etc etc. An...
Our last post caused a bit of controversy - we’ve had a lot of people coming up to us and saying things along the lines of “Dudes, you guys are INSANE” and “how did you not got arrested doing that?”. We chuck...
Well not quite, but we hit 100 fans on our Facebook page today I think that means we have officially had too much time on our hands keeping this blog updated while in the mountains. But today, alas, some good news… WE ARE OUT OF HERE! T...
Yes, just when we think it couldn’t get much worse, the last 24 hours have brought further news that warrants a part III of this saga. (more…)
Heaven help those who line up next to us on the start-line of that first race in Palma. We’ve already bottled up a week’s worth of anger and frustration. We’...
Later today we SHOULD be leaving the quaint French village of St Chely d’Apcher. But we have more important news today… (more…)
A big shout out to our buddy Jon Emmett who is launching his spanking new sailing book at the Boat Show this weekend, called Be Your Own Sailing Coach. We like the title, mainly because we can’t afford to hire our own coach. ...
It’s time for a follow up to our Palma journey misadventures. The good news - the clutch is fixed. Yippee! The bad news - we need a new gearbox. Our bags were packed… morale was high… we even had a window of opportunity where we might even have made the 11 o’clock Barcelona ferry. The mechanic ...
