Happy New Year all!
I was fortunate enough to run aground on this tremendous resource and community and although I'm not yet a
blue water sailor, I aim to develop my
maintenance and sailing skills over the next couple of years, before I buy my own
boat.
I've been sailing since I was 11 years old. (I'm now 54) Mostly dinghies and
crewing on small
racing yachts, wherever in the world I happened to be working at the time.
My last job was corporate troubleshooting. A consulting role I was qualified for by virtue of a rather eclectic career. I've had serious disc problems for the last several years. So while I take some time out to
work on my
health and fitness, I'm retraining via a PhD at my local university to become a trauma psychologist.
The plan is to split my year between
work and long distance sailing.
[The top
photo is a shot of the coastline a few hundred yards from where I live, looking west. The last but one headland is Portrush, with Lough Foyle and Donegal in the background. The bottom
photo is looking east, with Dunluce Castle in the foreground and the most distant headland is The Giant's Causeway. Apologies for the quality. Taken with my mobile phone]