When you think you can’t do it and you think you’re too old
When you think you’re too broken and you think what you’re told
Stop thinking; rise, stand and then fly again.
M.Johnson

Latest Posts


  • Build Site Update

    I thought I would just give a quick update on the build site. As you know from my previous blog I had finally made the decision to build in my front garden. The rockery was doomed! This would have been… Continue reading

  • Update and Back to School!

    I thought I would just write a bit of an update and keep this blog going with some momentum. Getting the site built is moving quite well, and I think the front garden has been saved (see last post). Nothing… Continue reading

  • Where to build?

    As you may have noticed from my first few posts, I have been quite carried away with the thought of the whole adventure side of this project. However, there does come a point where the reality of building a boat… Continue reading

  • If you fail to plan, you will plan to fail!

    How many of us have heard the saying with which I have entitled this piece? I have heard it so often that I tended to start rolling my eyes as soon as I heard ‘If…’. I am not saying it’s… Continue reading

  • It’s all about the blogs, ’bout the blogs, ’bout the blogs!

    So as I have mentioned in a previous section of this blog, the writing of the blog is all part of the process of building the ClassGlobe 5.80 – and it will already be evident to you from the errors… Continue reading

  • A bit more detail

    Ok, I think I should at least give you a little more detail other than ‘old man gone crazy!’ There is method behind the madness. The boat I’m looking to build is one that has been built before by non-boat… Continue reading

  • Broken Wings 256 Letter of Introduction

    Dear Reader, I am no sailor and I am no builder of boats, but I have decided to build a boat and hopefully one day sail around the world. Yes that’s right – around the world! Yes, in a boat… Continue reading