Life Aboard
Captain of the boat is Julian. His primary responsibility is for the safety of the crew and the boat. He also offers his philosophy on life by nurturing rater than preaching, pressure or persuasion. When people ask me how long have I been sailing I tell them that I was sailing before I was born. The [...]
Spiritual retreat on a sailing boat. Here is an opportunity for you to choose to loose all that’s bad in you. Clean yourself inside and out, on a boat. Choose a unique environment well away from temptation and social pressure. Separate yourself from electronic communication. Try it for a while and get back to the [...]
Living on a sailing boat There are many ways to live on a boat and places to be. At the moment I live on my boat in the Caribbean. Some choose to spend six months at a time, some year round with breaks to visit family and get a bit of Terra Firma now and [...]
I offer time aboard my boat, this is not a job offer and it is not work. Work on a sailing boat can be fun. After a while it does not feel like working at all. You could even call it a ‘Charter’ if you like. Although if you compare the cost of spending time on [...]
Please discuss directly with Julian the cost to share time aboard Tropicbird The cost will depend on many factors including sharing the cost of food and personal consumables (toilet paper, detergents etc) and diesel cost based on hours that it is necessary to run the engine; an hourly rate. If whilst making a passage there [...]
I have a testimonial which says that I (Julian), likes things done his way. The writer agrees that since Tropicbird is my boat and my home that I should continue this way as my ‘right’, I make no apologies for the pun! once i quoted the need for the use of coasters on a boat, [...]
Tropicbird refurbishment Firstly let me introduce myself since the work done to TB in the last two years has been mine and you should have confidence in the quality. I started working on boats when I was sixteen years old, that is after growing up as helper to my dad who built boats as a [...]
Attempting to explain how I have managed my life aboard a boat for over eleven years (on and off) is difficult. There are so many facets. Suffice to say I am surviving. Perhaps the most amazing thing about my life is that I finance the resurrection and ongoing maintenance of Tropicbird. She is built of [...]
Cruising testimonials from John and Annette Smith. Our trip on Tropicbird. We had backpacked through South America and needed to get from Cartagena Colombia to Panama and onward to the States. Although we could have flown we decided to check on yachts sailing the route via the San Blas Islands. We talked to people at [...]