The making of an ocean sailor.
I'm learning what it takes to sail around the world alone.
Martin Goes Offshore documents the years before the departure: the training, judgment, miles, mistakes, repairs, and preparation required to become an ocean sailor.
Training miles, boat work, weather windows, offshore judgment.
A solo circumnavigation is the destination. Getting ready for it is the story.
Martin is not starting this from the position of an accomplished ocean sailor. The project begins earlier: with the work of learning the boat, the weather, the systems, the repairs, and the decisions that matter offshore.
Before a single-handed circumnavigation is realistic, there are skills to build, miles to sail, confidence to earn, and offshore experience to gain. Later, there will also be the right boat, a serious refit, and the preparation to make the attempt responsibly.
The point is to document that process honestly while it is still uncertain, practical, and unfinished.
I'm not an ocean sailor yet.
This is where the project becomes useful. It starts before the confident version of the story: before the finished boat, before the offshore routine, before the miles that make the goal credible.
The record has to begin with the actual baseline, not an inflated one. What Martin has done, what he can handle today, and what still needs repetition will shape every next step.
The starting point should be filled in with real details: current sailing experience, current training focus, and the next meaningful milestone.
- CURRENT EXPERIENCE
- [NEEDS INPUT: current sailing experience]
- CURRENT FOCUS
- [NEEDS INPUT: current training focus]
- NEXT MILESTONE
- [NEEDS INPUT: next major milestone]
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The road is not a straight line.
Training, miles, boat decisions, repairs, weather judgment, and offshore confidence will not arrive in a neat order. Some work will repeat. Some chapters will overlap. The point is to make the path visible without pretending it is already solved.
Current position
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Learn the craft
Build the everyday seamanship: handling the boat, reading weather, maintaining systems, and making calm decisions.
Build sea time
Turn practice into repetition on longer coastal passages, in changing conditions, with real consequences.
Go offshore
Move beyond protected water and learn how skipper, boat, and routines behave when land is no longer close.
Choose the boat
Find a boat that fits the route, budget, refit reality, and single-handed sailing.
Prepare boat and skipper
Refit, test, train, break things, repair them, and make the whole system dependable.
Depart
Leave only when the preparation, conditions, and judgment make departure responsible.
Circumnavigate
Sail the route in passages, solving weather, maintenance, fatigue, and decisions one leg at a time.