Hello! Welcome! Come aboard! Since we began our adventures on Longo Maï we’ve had such warm and wonderful feedback about our FB posts, thank you! We’ve also had quite a number of requests for more stories. Some folk are especially keen to learning a little about our daily life onboard in addition to hearing about the places we’ve been.
The questions we hear the most relate to life in foreign lands or should I say being a foreigner in someone else’s country, the difficulties that language and customs can sometimes create, and the laughs that go along with these issues. We’ve had lots of interest about cooking, housekeeping and the struggles and successes with maintaining the boat. The tale of Ian’s woes with the washing machine is the hands down favourite story from last year but there are many other stories of both our failures and successes as newbie sailors.
To be honest, though it’s not that different from life on land. That is until it is and then it’s so startingly different it can be quite discombobulating. “Discombobulating’; ‘now that’s a good word! You can feel it bob around on your tongue; much like a boat at sea. I digress.
We decided that FB was no longer the best platform to answer all your questions and indulge this fantasy I have of being a writer. And so, we have created “Sailing Longo Mai” the WordPress blog. This being the very first post. In the time to come both Ian and I will contribute to the blog, I know Ian’s posts are always a big hit so we’ll let you know if its Ian writing otherwise, you can assume I’m at the keyboard.
There are two ways you can read this blog and one simple way to ignore it. You may see the link on FB, or you can subscribe and receive an email. The great thing about subscribing is you can save blog for when you have a spare five minutes while you wait to see the dentist or that night when you need something boring to push you over into the land of nod. Just like my FB posts in the past, I don’t mind if you scroll on by without stopping. I don’t audit my likes and such, I know we have at least half a dozen devoted fans (you know who you are) and that’s enough for us.
We all have places to go and dentists to see so I promise no post will be longer than a ten minute read, and I’ll try to keep them to 5 mins and under. On occasion when there is an extra-long post we’ll warn you up front. We will also read all comments and respond, even it is just a thank you, you’ll know we’ve heard you.
“Fair winds and a dearth of sea monster as you travel through life.”
Sailing Longo Maï 