Newsletter 31.12.16

Although my vocation is to help individuals by providing a sailing adventure, create fellowship, relieve painful memories, challenge and ‘grow’ to another level; others have come to help me exactly when needed. A year ago a captain I had never met sent someone when I was on board alone. She Read more…

Newsletter 1.11.16

I am old so only have limited time left to change peoples’ lives (for the better)! I know that I am most effective when skippering a sailing vessel full of people. Then I am in my element. So I need to concentrate on actual sailing. I would still consider any Read more…

Newsletter 18.6.16

An amazing gaff schooner has been donated by a charity in Switzerland to YWAM Newcastle, Australia who will use her for medical missions in Papua New Guinea. ‘Ruach’ was originally built in 1986 of steel and is 37m length overall, has GRT of 98 with 170 tonnes displacement and sail Read more…

Newsletter 30.11.15

Unfortunately bad timing for the new managers meant that they had no funding or workers to help prepare Soteria for continued Christian sail-training this autumn 2015. So I did what I could within the limitations to progress matters when I returned from YWAM Next Wave from September until November. At Read more…