Welcome to Roobarb's Reach blog - how this is probably going to pan out

 Welcome.

So the blog is going to be in two parts. 

Part 1: Getting there. 

Going from Retiring and recovering from having three tendons re-attached in my shoulder - through the exercise of getting Non-Lucrative Visas and purchasing the boat - and getting it ready for a life afloat.  This involves navigating Spanish bureaucracy, finding a boat, packing a life up and the preparations for a peripatetic life on a boat. Plus observations and everything in between with the ups and downs. Some nautical bollocks*, a fair amount of grumbling and a rollercoaster of hopes and desperation.

Part 2: Out there.

The boat will have a formal log (of course) and this records proper observations, such as wind, location, tack, speed, air pressure, course, and comments about the matter of fact state of affairs.  The Blog is supposed to be a commentary on this, when we remember or have something funny to say. I will be posting pictures and my salty wit where possible. Mrs D will also be adding to it from time to time.  

I will be adding the usual bits like Lat, Long to give a flavour of the reality.  It won't be contemporaneous - this is for security, and also allowing for upload speeds so we don't cane our mobile data.   The security aspect is important - as we know of bloggers and  Youtubers who have been targeted by thieves and worse who have been tracked down by their online presence. 

I'll try and be consistent with tags. 

It will be a blend of life, locations, the ups and downs of becoming long term sailors at last and there will necessarily be some nautical bollocks*.

Stuff will get published in chunks, as I think of stuff from time to time and add to articles as I think of it.

Not all of it will be in order - and there will be some Part 1 revisits when we are afloat.

* Nautical Bollocks: Mrs Davies' term for technical sailing jargon, sailing terminology (Ancient and Modern) and any language lifted out of Hornblower, Patrick O'Brian etc