About us and the boat

About us and the boat:

We were lucky enough to retire early at the start of 2013 so we could head off and "live the dream" on board our Nordhavn 47 Trawler Yacht. The idea is to see some of the planet, at a slow 6 - 7 knots pace. There are no fixed goals or timings, we just had a plan to visit Scotland and then probably the Baltic before heading south.

The idea is to visit the nicer areas in these latitudes before heading south for warmer weather. If we like somewhere, we will stay for a while. If not, we will just move on. So, for the people who love forward planning and targets, this might seem a little relaxed!

If anyone else is contemplating a trawler yacht life, maybe our experiences will be enough to make you think again, or maybe do it sooner then you intended!

The boat is called Rockland and she is built for long distance cruising and a comfortable life on board too. If you want to see more about trawler yachts and the Nordhavn 47 in particular, there is a link to the manufacturers website in our "useful stuff" section. For the technically minded, there is a little info and pictures of the boat and equipment in the same section

Regards

Richard and June

Wednesday, 24 August 2016

Funny goings on....

Well, if you recall, we commented recently on the strange desires that folks in Russia seemed to have. This desire manifested itself in thousands of supposed reads of blog pages in a week originating from Russia.

Guess what - they have stopped now. Totally. So, either Mossad have stopped interrogating our blog and pretending to be from Russia, or the Russian authorities have blocked access or Mr Putin's chaps have decided that we are deluded but harmless. Frankly, we don't care which of those it is.

Oddly, as Russia has stopped making "unusual" accesses to the junk in here, other places have started. India and the Isle of Man are now popping up a little more. In parallel, the United Arab Emirates have started reading again. Perhaps because Putin has stopped? Who knows. Come on, introduce yourselves!

For the numerically minded and terminally sad, the average number of post reads per month (excluding stuff like the Russian figures and Google etc indexing our breathless prose) is 1,900 now. Here are the most read posts in the last few weeks:



So, you can see that our readers like saving money on fuel, are interested in pictures of the Nordhavn Europe team, seem to have a small penguin and Edinburgh fetish and enjoy reading about us working on maintenance topics. Remind us never to arrange a pub meet up for all the followers. It could be a very strange event....


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