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Welcome To The Howarths.Net

Glenys and I have had a few adventures in our life - skydiving, sailing, mountaineering, skiing, scuba diving, horse riding - we've tried most things.

In 2011, we sold our house in the UK and moved onto our sailing yacht "Alba".  For the following 8 years, we slowly meandered our way around the world, completing our circumnavigation in 2019.  The Alba Chronicles is a daily diary of our voyage and The Glencora Diaries is a diary of another four year voyage back in the 1990's, cruising with children in the Mediterranean and Caribbean. 

Glenys has created The Galley Slave - an on-line cookbook showing some of her favourite recipes from around the world. A link to our most recent photographs can be in our Gallery page.  We're keen divers and have created an Underwater Photos section where you can see some of our photographs of sea-life from around the world.

Clicking on any photograph will display an enlargement, clicking on an anchorage name will display the location of the anchorage in Google Maps and we've even created links to various creatures that we've photographed along the way - so if you don't know what a Peacock Mantis looks like, you can now find out.

 

Update Oct 2019, Alba has now been sold and we have adapted to living ashore - Glenys has taken up horse riding and Neville is now a keen glider pilot.

Nearly Ready to Launch

7  March 2016   Boat Lagoon, Phuket
The major item on my To-do List is to get the rigging work finished.  I spent most of the morning measuring, drilling and tapping the ten holes in the new backing plates to fit the rod kicker bracket.   By lunchtime, I still had to grind away some of metal on the backing plates.

Read more: Nearly Ready to Launch

Cruising Information

This is a collection of information that might be useful to the Cruising Community:

  • Weather - a set of articles on weather, sat phones and route planning
  • Cruising Notes - a set of detailed notes for cruising areas that are not well documented.
  • Technical Notes - a set of notes on technical subjects
  • Downloads - various files for download

Video - Just Fishing 2011

This is a short view of catching fish around Grenada including "The One That Got Away"

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Video - Skydiving 2001

We both spent fifteen years skydiving and gave up the sport in 1990 after our two sons were born.  Neville returned for a short while and this is footage of a couple of skydives with his old team members at a local competition in 2000.  (Neville is the one with the red rig.)

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Video - Alba Oct 2011

This footage was taken on a four day trip between Curacao and Trinidad. This is normally a pretty tough passage against the wind and current, but we were lucky enough to get a weather window that gave us north winds for a few days, apart from when we encountered thunderstorms and squalls. The dolphins were the stars of the trip. We were visited by Common Dolphins, Pan-tropical Spotted Dolphins and Bottlenosed Dolphins.

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Video - Ice Climbing

Neville has ice climbed in the Alps, Norway and Kyrgyzstan.  This short video gives an glimpse into the fun and adventure of this sport. 

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