The Idiot Farm: Sailing Painfully Slowly Round Britain's 'Big Island' in a Small Boat, with a Side Order of Low Countries

“The Idiot Farm” is the story of my sailing trip round what most people would probably call Mainland Britain in my wee 27ft long keeled yacht. I never really set out to go round the whole thing, so the journey was incredibly slow, sporadic, and and not in any particular order. I started out in 2006 and didn’t really finish until 2018. Had a garden snail started out on the same 3000 mile journey at the same time as me, he’d have finished only a few days after I did, which I don’t count as a ...