My Clipper Log

“The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go.”    ~ Dr. Seuss , I Can Read With My Eyes Shut! Which holds so true for me. The more I read the more I discover and desire to do. With the increased interest in sailing and all things nautical, I've been reading all I can about sail trips and sailors. Here I've listed a few that stood out for me. In the Heart of the Sea by Nathaniel Philbrick Just at the time that the whaling industry was in its last throes, a whaler attempts to hunt and kill the largest whale ever spotted. Only to become the hunted, with the whale turning on the whaling fleet and wrecking havoc on them all. The survivors turn to cannibalism in a last ditch attempt at survival. A story that reminds us to be mindful of nature’s willfulness at all times A Voyage for Mad Men by Peter Nichols Recounts the first Golden Globe Race, a solo circumnavigation in a sail boa

There are no foolish questions and no man becomes a fool until he has stopped asking questions. ~  Charles Proteus Steinmetz   June 1 st and the countdown to my training has begun. As I pack my bags, I wonder how it will be like? Wonder what Gosport is like? I’ve never been to the UK. How will the Clipper folk actually be? They seem like an assorted, global mix of interesting people. What will it be like to live on a boat for a few days at a stretch? I’ve been dying to do that. Will I be able to stay on board and not trip and fall? Only because I’m used to being barefoot on Mhadei but will need to have boat shoes on now. What about the possibility of being sea sick? How will I go through that? It’s always a possibility. Both Dilip Donde and Abhilash Tomy were sea sick at some point. I’ll have these answers once I get there and get started. But I thought it might be a good idea to respond to some questions sent my way When did the Clipper Round the World Race start