What time is it? What day of the week is it? What month is it? I do know it's 2011. This summer is flying by and I have been far too busy on and off the water to be able to update my blog. I will try and remember what I have done in the past month….. My first charter skipper work finished on 30th May. I flew back to Corfu then and spent a week as a shore based skipper doing basic manual labour jobs. I then spent two weeks on the water teaching (from June 5th t...

This entry covers my first ten days as a charter skipper from 20th to 30th May. I decided to put some effort into this entry after reading other blogs which were of essay length, so make sure you are sitting comfortably. Day one – Friday 20th May. Euca, company man with a car, gave me a lift to Athens. He was going to pick up another hostess from the airport and so I got a lift along the way. He was heading for the airport and would take me to the marina i...

Grabbing a spare morning to update you all :) These past two weeks I have not been instructing. I said bye to my last clients on 4th May. Two weekends ago I helped with the flotilla turnaround at a town called Plataria, which is on the mainland of Greece, east of Corfu. My job for the day was to fill the water tanks on all the boats. Which was perfect after the base manager was behind the bar the night before. On Monday 9th I did a day's tuition with a coup...

WHERE TO START... I know - The Pot Smashing in Corfu Town, 10 days ago. It was awesome. We did indeed muster at 8am with our hired bicycles. It was the earliest anyone had probably got up on a day off. The pot smashing was at 11am and it does not take 3 hours to ride into town, more like 25 minutes. We started early as we went into town via every bakery and shop and stopped for a chat and a drink. We stood in a street and at 11am on the dot suddenly every...

T-minus 1 hour! In one hour my first client arrives! And we are ready! We have worked non stop all through the day to get the two training yachts ready this week. Sailingholidays is the biggest company I have worked for by far and I am still amazed at the amount of resources, personnel and expertise that is on offer here. I have learned so much in the past 6 weeks. But there is always so more still to learn and do. The rest of the staff have joked that there a...