You can contact John Passmore at john@oldmansailing.com or WhatsApp +447957896028.<\/p>\n
You can follow the adventure in real time by signing up to The Full Ocean Experience on my buy-me-a-coffee site at https:\/\/buymeacoffee.com\/oldmansailing<\/a>\u00a0 (look for “Become a Member”.)<\/p>\n You can see where I’ve got to at – https:\/\/www.polarsteps.com\/JohnPassmore\/23440014-2026<\/a><\/p>\n If you prefer to listen to this blog – or indeed, any of my writing, you can have it read to you by an AI clone of my voice at ElevenLabs – just choose the voice “oldmansailing”. https:\/\/elevenlabs.io\/<\/a><\/p>\n The oldmansailing Instagram channel features a short video every day: https:\/\/instagram.com\/oldmansailing\/<\/a> But since the hacking incident, growth has slowed right down, so any help you can give the channel would be appreciated – likes and comments and shares all help. And, of course, subscribing.<\/p>\n Facebook, at https:\/\/facebook.com\/oldmansailing <\/a>\u00a0(Although at the moment, I can’t get back in after being hacked.) Back soon, I hope.<\/p>\n There’s a YouTube channel as well. Every Sunday this features a new episode of The Oldmansailing Book Club – a 20-40 minute reading from one of the oldmansailing books (to the accompaniment of onboard video from the previous week): https:\/\/youtube.com\/@oldmansailing<\/a><\/p>\n Once at sea, the Spotify oldmansailing playlist is on pretty much all the time. You can play it too: https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/playlist\/3JPfrasFrOPdfd8Ez2qtxf?si=0BamlWPKSda77PkDKEBTzg&pi=8oIfulyIQoiUB<\/a><\/p>\n Voyages so far<\/span>:<\/p>\n 2017: June: Bought Samsara <\/em>in Conwy, North Wales. Launched in September. Sailed south and up the English Channel to Woodbridge.<\/p>\n 2018: Up the North Sea, over the top of the Orkneys to the Outer Hebrides, then down to the Azores and back to the Essex backwaters.<\/p>\n 2019: Jester Challenge (North Wales to Baltimore in Ireland), West coast of Ireland, Scillies, Channel Islands.<\/p>\n 2020: Lockdown cruise from Essex – over the top of the Shetlands, down to the Azores (but not stopping) and back to Falmouth. Anchored in St Helen’s Pool, Scillies, for a month to write Old Man Sailing.<\/em> Then to northern Spain (and back when travel restrictions for the family to join me in Portugal were not lifted). Up the Irish Sea, Hebrides, Orkneys and back to Essex.<\/p>\n 2021: Up the east coast to the Shetlands, NW Scotland, outside Ireland to Falmouth \u2013 up to Portsmouth to film MyClassicBoat video, back to Falmouth, then straight to the Canaries (to avoid the Orcas off the Spanish and Portuguese coasts). On to the Gambia and 120 miles up the river. Christmas at Lamin Lodge.<\/p>\n 2022: The Cape Verde islands, across the Atlantic to Grenada, visiting the Grenadines, Martinique, St Martin and the British Virgin Islands. Back to Falmouth, Channel Islands, St Malo and then up to Conwy in North Wales for a refit.<\/p>\n 2023: From North Wales to Amsterdam via the English Channel to get the Aries self-steering serviced. Then to Plymouth for the Jester Challenge to Baltimore again. Thence to Les Sables d’Olonne to promote the French edition of Old Man Sailing (Le vieil homme hisse la voile). Up to Liverpool for children’s graduations. Back down to the Isle of Wight to get the new tank and water maker fitted (but they’d sold my water maker to someone else). So, on to Falmouth for the Ocean Cruising Club’s West Country meet, back to the Solent for the water maker (finally!), on to the Canaries, but by this time it was late in the season, and I got knocked down. A quick stop at the Cape Verdes and then on to Grenada.<\/p>\n 2024: Up and down the Caribbean island chain and then a race to get back to Trinidad in time to hide from Hurricane Beryl (but hit a rock because I was watching videos of the devastation instead of looking where I was going.) Westward to Curacao and Aruba for the Lithium batteries and Colombia, where I seemed to get stuck with the local tradesmen having a different definition of “Ma\u00f1ana”.<\/p>\n 2025: From Colombia, through the ABC Islands to Panama – and then, on a whim to see the Isle of Man TT, back through the Florida Strait and up the US Eastern Seaboard riding on the Gulf Stream to the Grand Banks and across the North Atlantic to enter the Irish Sea from the North where the forestay broke – then an abortive attempt to get to Tristan da Cunha in time for Christmas.<\/p>\n 2026: Instead of Tristan da Cunha, landfall in St Helena (at the same time as the Mini Globe fleet) and then on to Grenada in time to fly to Austria for family skiing, then return to Ireland in preparation for departure on The Francis Chichester 60th Anniversary Challenge.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" You can contact John Passmore at john@oldmansailing.com or WhatsApp +447957896028. 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