I was 65 years old when I solo sailed across the North Atlantic in 2025.  I have done some sailing but never a big solo ocean crossing passage.  I was getting old and realised that if I didn't do it now, I never would.  I saw vividly that I needed to cast off the lines tethering me to the dock, hoist my sails and go.

There is more to it than that - not least a two year refit of a boat I found in Baltimore - but, at the same time, that is all there was to it.  Making a decision.

I am a husband and a father of two young men.  I felt strongly that I had to show them that you don't drift into a fuller life.

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The journey so far has been Baltimore - New York - Bermuda - Horta in the Azores - La Palma in the Canaries.

 

The next leg, the big one, is down to Brazil at the end of 2026.  And after that, maybe, Cape Horn.

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This website and blog is all about documenting that but more importantly to share the insights I have gained (and are still gaining!) about making yourself do things and living with faith and courage.

To that end I am writing a series of letters, written in the frame of what I wish someone had written to me when I was a young man.  They will turn into a book for publication in 2026, "Letters to Sam."  This is the second journey under, as it were, the Transatlantic sailing journey. 

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