by Hilary Gallo | Sep 13, 2023
Navigation at sea is easy nowadays. We have electronic charts and GPS. The chart provides a map and the GPS tells us where we are. Easy. But what do you do when you are chatting with your friends in the cockpit and you want a rough estimate of how far away from...
by Hilary Gallo | Jul 28, 2021
For five weeks in the summer of 2021, I took a break. With a series of friends and family I took our boat from Suffolk to the Isles of Scilly and back. Most of the time we explored Cornwall, the fishing villages, small harbours and a few commercial centres. The...
by Hilary Gallo | May 19, 2020
https://www.instagram.com/tv/B_1nX7YH47F/ Lockdown benefits! Fear Hack is now available as a video book We even got the author to read it for us The whole book is on IGTV And in this crazy virus time, it’s for...
by Hilary Gallo | Mar 6, 2020
I first went to The Do Lectures in 2011 …. then everything started to change. In 2019, I was asked to speak. I knew what I had to talk...
by Hilary Gallo | Jan 17, 2020
Some years ago, I read Richard Flanagan’s masterpiece “The Narrow Road To The Deep North”. Many passages in the book struck me but one in particular stood out. This is the moment, some fifty pages in, when Dorrigo Evans, the hero of the story, is served a steak. Evans...