Jonas Ullmann, son of UK Sailmakers Denmark’s Morten Ullmann, flying downwind during practice session testing the latest Europe Dinghy sail.

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Sailing channel. Welcome on board! 🤗 We are Stuart (from England) and Marina (from Spain) and we live aboard Wayzgoose Warrior, a Trident Warrior 31ft sailboat. We have no fixed plans neither a destination but are thirsty for adventure and stories to share. With very little money and no previous experience we have been learning the ropes and started our journey. THANK YOU VERY MUCH to all the generous people who use the links below: Ko-fi - https://ko-fi.com/sailingseabird PayPal - https://www.paypal.me/sailingwayzgoose Patreon - https://patreon.com/SailingSeabird Amazon Wishlist - https://www.amazon.fr/hz/wishlist/ls/14DOHERKUB66T?ref_=wl_share You can also follow us on: Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/SailingSeabird Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/___sailingseabird___/ Don't forget to like, subscribe and click the notification bell if you want to follow this adventure! Thank you, Stuart & Marina & Seabird

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2010 Precision 18 sailboat (hull #620) sailing Eleven Mile Reservoir in Colorado (Aug 24, 2020)

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*MARESIA* IS A SINGLE OWNER 1995 MONARO 27 SE/SX Professionally serviced with records since new by the same shop. Available is a mechanical referral letter, Summarizing the years of great care and preventative maintenance. Maximize your time on the water. Monaro boats are smooth and fun in both calm and choppy water. This one is fast with easy acceleration and planning at 2800rpm. Think terrific cruiser and superb weekend boat. Ideal for fishing. Joy ride or run up the coast with ease to Pender Harbour and beyond. Spend the day at Thormanby and back to the city in the same day. SO much to do and so many fun places to explore. Cruising is a JOY! With effortless hydraulic steering and tremendous visibility from the raised helm. Fully enclosed with heat and seating for four. Also, with a sterndrive angle indicator gauge and digital fuel flow gauge. Top speed is over 40 knots. Power is twin Volvo 5.7 GSi engines with 280hp each and 2212 hours. Matched with fully serviced Volvo duo prop sterndrives. Great compression numbers on file. Jan 2023 last haul out for zincs. Storage all over. Full of custom and useful additions. 7’0 of headroom in the cabin and close to 6’0 in the head! All systems are operational. Monaro boats do not hit the market often. Please call or email today to schedule a viewing.

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5 interesting insights about sailing myths: 1*Whistling Aboard* You absolutely cannot pucker your lips and *whistle* on deck; that's just begging the Sea Gods to hear the insolence and whip up a catastrophic, ship-smashing storm. It was a simple, pragmatic method of enforcing silence: if you weren't whistling for fun, you were whistling for the wind in the sails—a literal attempt to challenge the elements when the weather was too calm. *Bananas on Board* To carry a single, innocent-looking banana onto a fishing or trading vessel was to invite complete doom—from mysterious disappearances to a devastatingly empty net. Forget the tropical fruit curse; ripening bananas release ethylene gas that speeds up the spoilage of *all* other food, forcing crews to rush their voyage. The real threat was rotten food and starvation! *The Unlucky Redhead* Anyone with flaming crimson hair was a certified 'Jonah'—an immediate harbinger of bad luck whose very presence could sink the ship. The intense belief was so strong that if a sailor saw a redhead before boarding, they *had* to speak first to neutralize the terrible bad luck—a social anxiety nightmare on the docks. *Renaming a Vessel* You can never, under any circumstances, rename your beloved boat without a meticulous ceremony to trick the Sea God, Poseidon, who keeps a ledger of every ship. Poseidon's ledger is a clever fiction; the real danger was confusing official maritime records, insurance papers, and salvage contracts, thus creating administrative chaos and potential financial ruin. *Friday Sailings* Starting any voyage on a Friday was deemed an absolute guarantee of misfortune, so potent was the superstition that no true sailor would ever raise anchor on that day. The British Navy, in a legendary attempt to mock this superstition, built a vessel named *HMS Friday*, captained by a man named Friday, and sailed her out on a Friday—and she was never seen again. If you love the sailing life, please SUBSCRIBE, LIKE, and COMMENT as it really helps the channel and we love to hear from you😁😁 *Thank You to all of you who support us in your different ways* ❤️ ✅ *INSTAGRAM* https://www.instagram.com/sailingnovavita/ ✅ *FACEBOOK* https://www.facebook.com/SailingNovaVita #sailing #yachting #boatlife #adventure

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