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Picture

This shot seems out of place but the further boat contains one of my brudders returning to his home mooring after a three-year circumnavigation of the Globe.

He is followed by his 
previous boat in which he and others crossed the Atlantic many times.  We are a sailing family. ​
HOW did I get here? 

Sailing and the sea runs in the family, four of the five of us being in the 'able' to 'very able' category.  Two brothers have crossed the Atlantic more than once and one of them has circumnavigated the globe. 

A sister is a skilled dinghy sailor and ocean navigator with a skipper's ticket and experience of sailing all over the world. 

About 2008, my wife, in her wisdom, decided I might look at inland waterways.  Although competent in boats, she has no interest: She had heard of escapades at sea and worried that I might someday be brought home to her in a body bag ... "or not at all" ...  This convinced me

I'd had a fair innings. 

In 2008, I joined a canal charity in Harlow doing onshore maintenance of their fleet and later taking people out who were less lucky than I've been in life. 
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  • MUDDY BROWN WATER
    • CORDWAIN
    • Colour of Water
    • Lehman Way
    • Loadsa Money
    • Floating Man Cave
    • Cunning Lists
    • Later Lists
    • letters and articles
    • by buying a boat
    • and floating away
    • with a pint of milk
    • not quite 100 percent
    • begin boating
    • Uisge Donn Salach
    • Boat Survey
    • Hide & Seek
    • Hide and Seek
    • Real Deal
    • Finding a Fix
    • Give me my Boat
    • a failed survey
  • PENTARGON'S BLOG
  • HOME
    • CURLY WURLY >
      • ARTISTIC NARROWBOAT >
        • goldfinch restaurant >
          • tearpree blink
          • tearpree veriews
    • Sail The Dream
    • Sell the Boat
    • Sail-Away
    • ULYSSES UNRAVELLED
    • Pogue Away Day
    • Sailing Away
    • CONCEPT v REALITY >
      • to live off-grid
      • ARRIVAL IN ENGLAND >
        • Original List
      • Wrong Way Round
      • epilogue criochnaithe
      • On-Grid-Ways
      • Recession
      • Slough Arm
    • RELATION ... SHIPS >
      • 12-0 humans
      • 12-1 widminter
      • 12-2 WHO
      • 12-3 WHEN
      • 12-4 HOW
      • 12-5 WHY
      • 12-6 WHAT
      • 12-7 on board
      • 12.8 comms
    • 14-0 ODORSHET >
      • 14-1 facebooked
      • 14-3 excremented
      • 14-4 excretions origins
      • 14-2 macerated
      • 14-5 composting
    • Pentargon Days >
      • 2015
      • The Original Blog List >
        • PENTARGON
        • 60906
  • PENTARGONS GALLEY
    • Pentargon Coffee
    • Off-Grid-Catering
    • Pasta Management
    • Porridge
    • Drop Scones
    • Bolognaise
    • Marinade
    • CuppaCocoa
    • Burger Stew
    • Scromolet
    • Cooking with Steam
  • SPLANING
    • 2013-0 Water Wasted
    • 2013-1 Water Heated
    • 2013-2 water costed
    • 2013-3 water not wasted
  • HOT AND COLD
    • Fuelling Fires
    • Hampshire Heat
    • Charcoal Heat
    • Boat Heat
  • SAMUEL JOHN SPRINGER
    • Operation Pied Piper
    • Sam's Harborough
    • Harborough & Rolt
    • Samuel in Expansion
    • Patience is a Minor
  • BILLY'S STORY
  • TALES FROM THE TIDES
    • ponder not how >
      • London Stones
      • down river
    • Inland Storms >
      • river creek >
        • Mapping My Village
        • Dartford Departure
    • FROM WITHOUT >
      • Just Another Day
      • Spoons on the cut
      • Between the Locks
      • TECHNICAL TALES >
        • ships husbandry >
          • hull maintenance
          • recycling
          • carpentry
        • Mitred Fire Escape
        • qualified bullshitters
        • electric enterprises >
          • Electrical Ingenuity >
            • Charge of the Light Brigade
            • wired in radio
            • charging electric
        • boatpaint
        • propellers - propulsion >
          • Leaf Mugging
      • kenya jacaranda >
        • ebb and flow
        • ship security
        • 2017 jetsam
        • 2016 sink some
      • The Bristol Channel
      • The Boat Flag Story
    • years and tears >
      • Bottle of Wine >
        • The wine travels on
      • flow and ebb >
        • Mitre Gate Lock
  • HOMENENE
    • HAVEN FOR BEWILDERED
    • COMPOS MENSIS
    • JANGLERS HAVEN
    • REPRESENTATION
    • PENTARGONS HOMENENE
  • PENTARGONS BLOGS