Thank you Yachting Monthly magazine for awarding us the runner up in the inaugural Brian Black Memorial Award 2021

Today is our first "Trash Tuesday" of 2021. It comes to you from a very lovely anchorage between Karakoren and Gemiler Adasi in Turkey.

This video was shot in late October 2019. Until we can return to Lady Roslyn, we can only re-live our adventures through our stored images.

A few weeks ago I was asked by someone on Facebook to please post details about the hookah rig which we use on Lady Roslyn when needing to dive under the boat. This piece of equipment is a real asset to have onboard. It makes diving under the hulls a quick and easy task. We have an electric Paramina dive compressor, 3 scuba tanks, and 3 full sets of scuba gear with us. In the 4 years we have owned Lady Roslyn, I have probably used the hookah rig attached to a scuba tank on th

A few days ago we found a lovely unnamed anchorage along the southern coastline of Pserimos. The bottom is sand with good holding and there is only the sound of goat bells for company and the twinkling of the lights across the channel to Kos at night. Our good friends, Ian and Jenny were sailing with us and at sunset Jenny SUP’ped to shore to walk along the beach. She came back to Lady Roslyn with a selection of plastic trash she had found littering the beach. In the morning,

For a number of years before buying Lady Roslyn, we chartered catamarans in various locations around the Mediterranean. The man we used to find the right boat, at the right time, in the right location and at the right price was almost always Roger Garnett from Tenrag Yacht Charters in the UK. Somehow he always came through for us and even though we now own our own boat, he has kept contact with us via Facebook. He often commented on our posts and in particular he showed an in

It's been a while since our last "Sharing the lessons" post, but we have a few new ones lined up if I can just stop long enough to write them. While underwater, cleaning the hulls after we had left Lady Roslyn for a few weeks to return home, I noticed that our propeller zincs were almost completely corroded away. The sail drive zincs are fine but the propeller zincs definitely needed replacing. We last lifted Lady Roslyn from the water 18 months ago in Athens and we do not in

If you read our Trash Tuesday post from 23rd July you may remember that on a 4km stretch of one of the most beautiful beaches in Greece, I picked up 668 plastic bottle caps while out running one day. After leaving Sani Marina we travelled north to Thessaloniki where we left LADY ROSLYN for 6 weeks to return home. As soon as I arrived home I forwarded my blog post to Sani Resort, which borders Bousalas beach, for their comments. They have one of the most comprehensive Sustaina

This is the first properly edited video we have ever posted. It is in the format we hope to use for all videos going forward which will be themed "Lady Roslyn in under 3 minutes". I'm not going to preempt the narrative, but the day that the story relates to was certainly a highlight of our summer so far. The video was edited on Adobe Premier Pro. Hopefully my editing skills will improve and speed up over time. The video you see is less than 3 minutes long but took almost 15 h

I can't speak for other areas of the world, but if you have sailed in the Mediterranean Sea, I am sure that you will have noticed white polystyrene containers floating on the surface of the water. Human beings have evolved to find pattern in chaos and to visually identify what should not be in a scene. This ability helped our ancestors to survive by being able to spot a sabre toothed tiger stalking them in the long grass. Nowadays, perhaps that skill is no longer needed as mu