I live in the UK and work as a Solutions Architect for CGI, sometimes posting on Instagram and Facebook, but not very often, because I have concerns with both of them.

I’m very lucky to work a four-day week which gives me time to work on side projects. One of them is improving our camper van, lilleflyttehytta and the other is learning how to sail a yacht called Paloma that we bought in August 2023, really to compensate for a gradual ramping down of sea kayaking trips. Most of those are expedition-type holidays and three or four people are needed to make a trip safely, so we don’t get away on a regular basis.

I learnt how to sail a dinghy as a child and always considered the next step to be too expensive and maintenance-intensive, but I’ve come to appreciate that sailing and living on a small yacht is feasible if done within the right parameters - Stewart Brand is busy writing his book The Maintenance Race and on reading it I decided that I wanted to sail just a bit like another long-time hero of mine, Bernard Moitessier, although I’ll never be as confident or competent a sailor as he was.

I set this site up because I found very few pointers for owners of Julian Evertt designed Evolution 22 yachts. Plus I wanted to preserve some notes of previous trips and with pointers to boat and van-based lifestyles. If you are viewing it on a mobile phone or a tablet, you may find the images are hidden - click on the red plus in a circle icon to view them.

The site layout was provided by Clay Harmon, creator of the Tufte-Jekyll theme, which is inspired by the work done by Edward Tufte and his collaborators on Github who created a CSS file that allows web writers to use the same simple and elegant style employed in his published materials.