I promise there’s no reference to William Wallace! What is freedom of the sea? What are we escaping from, or put another way, what might we be escaping to? Confused….. don’t be, but jump over to the Sea: Reflections section and check out the latest post.

I’ve recently completed Kennedy Warne’s Soundings where he describes rowing out to a family boat with his 92-year-old father. He starts the book tracing his intergenerational connection to the sea and boats and it got me thinking….. Thinking about fathers and sons, adventures, of losses and gains, of conflict and harmony. There are some great books in this vein, and here I touch on a few; My Old Man and the Sea, One Wild Song, The Boy who Fell to Shore. Go to the Reflections section if you want to know more.

It’s the third evening on a five-day voyage with a group of year ten boys from a ‘well-to-do’ school. The dishes were rinsed in salt water and then sent below to be washed, dried, and …. To read more go to the Reflections section