Teach-A-Man 2012 | Roseland Online

Teach a Man – December 2012

Despite the horrible weather in the days following our sail with the Hungry Sailors, we managed to find a short window of sunshine in which to go out in search of bass...

Teach A Man To Fish – November 2012

This month we have been mostly rigging our boat. Now if you’d asked me how long it would take to do this at the end of last month, I would have said...

Teach A Man To Fish – October 2012

Well for once I’m not sitting down to write an update for Roseland Online which starts ‘It’s been a hectic month’. It’s been bliss after months of rushing and anxiously calendar watching...

September 2012

On the Thursday before our wedding, I was shopping for shoes. This felt like a fairly high level of organisation by my standards, but the shop owner’s horror when I told her...

August 2012

A lot has changed since my last update and as the launch date gets closer time seems to be moving faster! There’s still a lot to do, but the prospect of getting...

July 2012

How is it July already?! I can’t believe it’s nearly a year since Simon and I started sailing home on Planet. And forget all thoughts of sunny Greece – if anyone’s thinking...

June 2012

I wouldn’t make a good Queen. In fact I can’t think of anyone less suited to be a Royal. I may be the same age as Kate Middleton and share her hair...

May 2012

So much to tell you this month! There’s been glueing, planing and sanding and more epoxy than you can shake a stick at…which is exactly what you do with epoxy, but more...

April 2012

This could be a bit of a short update. Not because nothing’s happened; in fact despite being away for nearly two weeks since our last post, March has been one of the...

February’s been an exciting month for us. As far as the boat build’s concerned, everything’s progressing well. Si finished his Introduction to Fishing course in Newlyn, crisp new certificate in hand and...