Trouble & expeditionary disabled sailing

A sailboat marked SailingTrilleen with a red boom cover sits alongside a pontoon

Having reached as far north as I’ll go on this trip, rounding Muckle Flugga has prompted some serious reflection about the challenges we set ourselves — as people in general, and in my case, as a disabled person. People run into trouble in the sea, in the mountains, and other extreme environments without adding extra … Read more

Vanquishing Muckle Flugga

A lighthouse stands out over a stormy sea with a white radome of a northern flank radars station on the cliff above.

Trilleen and I came round Muckle Flugga, in a Muckle blow, from the south east. Achieving the turn point around Shetland’s northernmost point is the furthest north I go on this Round Britain and Ireland sail, and a point which I thought I might never reach, impeded as much by technical failures, tragedies, and self … Read more