Nick Coghlan

📚💙On our #sailing voyage to Haida Gwaii this year (1400 miles there and back) we returned via one of our favourite anchorages: Hollywood Passage on Vancouver Island's west coast (one of 50 remote places featured in www.bloomsbury.com/ca/under-wid...

#Booksky Latest review of Sailing to the Heart of Japan: "This fascinating book gives a wonderful insight to the Japanese people, their customs and culture, as well as much #sailing information..."

📚💙 "Under Wide and starry Skies" hitting the big time (have to admit these categories are a bit "niche"...😀) #Sailing

📚💙Reviews are piling up - this one from 🇬🇧's Yachting Monthly magazine. #Sailing

Latest review of Under Wide and Starry Skies - from 🇳🇿's Island Cruising Association: "Vivid Stories of #sailing and discovery..."

💙📚 #Sailing around the world in the 1980s, we occasionally would drop overboard a message in a bottle. We never heard anything back...until one day more than thirty years later. Chapter 32 of "Under Wide and Starry Skies" tells the story.

💙📚 It's not too late to get your Mom the perfect Mothers' Day gift! The book that will inspire her to give up her humdrum life at home, go to sea and live a life of adventure: "Under Wide and Starry Skies - Fifty #Sailing Destinations in Seas Less Travelled" 😀

Warner, Young, Colleagues Push Trump Administration to Fill Sudan Special Envoy Position as Civil War Continues WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Sens. Mark R. Warner (D-VA) and Todd Young (R-IN) wrote to Secretary of State Marco Rubio urging him to work with President Trump to appoint a new Special Envoy for Suda...

Senators call for 🇺🇸 re-engagement on #Sudan - following the termination of envoy Perriello. Desirable - as long as they're empowered to talk tough to the UAE; and there's no transactional "dealing" (as we saw with the previous Trump administration).
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💙📚Cocos-Keeling atoll, Indian Ocean, 🇦🇺. One of 50 remote destinations featured in Under Wide and Starry Skies, this is the island that led Charles Darwin to the definitive theory of how atolls are formed; the Admiralty chart still reads "As surveyed by HMS Beagle, 1836." #Sailing

💙📚I'm signed up for next week's "Living Library" project at the Salt Spring library. It means acting as a living book, on two subjects: The Life of a 🇨🇦 Diplomat; Sailing Around the World. Check me out! (or at least don't leave me on the discards pile...😢)

THE Book for Every Offshore & Armchair Sailor - Currents Bluewater Cruising Under Wide and Starry Skies: 50 Sailing Destinations in Seas Less Travelled. Nicholas Coghlan. Adlard Coles. Forthcoming Canadian Publication: May 6th, 2025. This beautiful book is replete with colour...

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💙📚 Out today in softcover in N. America/Down Under: Under Wide and Starry Skies - 50 #Sailing Destinations in Seas Less Travelled. This one's Easter Island (dodgy as an anchorage, but scenic). If your bookshelf's already too full, just ask your Library to order. Review in Replies.

Kuir and David, students from #SouthSudan at 🇨🇦's Pearson College, needed a break from their end-of-year IB exams so we took them for an afternoon of #sailing off Saltspring. They may not be the future of the #SouthSudan navy 😉but there's no doubt they're the future of the country.

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Lots of focus (rightly) on the #Sudan catastrophe, but meanwhile #SouthSudan (or possibly its ally #Uganda) is also bombing humanitarians and the people they care for. Just sickening. Sympathy to all @msf.ca
staff and patients. x.com/SudansPost/s...

Netherlands Embassy in South Sudan to close down – Sudans Post The government of the Netherlands has announced the closure of its embassy in Juba as part of a broader cost-cutting measure affecting its global diplomatic network.

Sorry to learn this. Ever since 2005 the Netherlands have contributed greatly to the development of #SouthSudan, including with their unique expertise in hydraulic engineering. Also the landlord for the 🇨🇦 embassy and wonderful colleagues; you will be missed. www.sudanspost.com/netherlands-...

💙📚 Readers: help out your favourite author in these "interesting times": Pre-order their book; Buy it from your local bookshop if you can; Share it on social media. Talk about it; Request it at the library; Leave a review (it boosts the algorithm); Recommend it to your friends.

No - dead and gone by then ☹️. It shouldn't detract from whether or not you enjoyed the book/movie - but both of them do stretch the truth a little... Such is art.

Yes - overlapped with the author (who wasn't that happy we had effectively kicked him out of his flat ☹️).

Interested in the now-screening movie The Penguin Lessons? Here's the real apartment (top floor, with adjoining rooftop one side, dormitory the other; our home 1978-81, inherited from the author); the pool, and the school chapel. All at St George's College, Buenos Aires 🇦🇷

💙📚 An unexpected hazard of #sailing in tropical waters - this (venomous) sea snake found its way below before we persuaded it to leave again via the cockpit drain. From Chapter 29 of "Under Wide and Starry Skies."

What ethical judge would allow a 4-year-old to appear and stand in their court without a lawyer, or parent, or adult guardian.

Sudan’s Nuba wrestling: a celebration of strength at a time of conflict – in pictures Amid the ongoing war between the Sudanese armed forces and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), the Nuba people of South Kordofan region uphold their centuries-old wrestling traditions. Originally designed...

Wonderful photo essay - wrestling in the Nuba Mountains #Sudan #SouthSudan www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

THE Book for Every Offshore & Armchair Sailor - Currents Bluewater Cruising Under Wide and Starry Skies: 50 Sailing Destinations in Seas Less Travelled. Nicholas Coghlan. Adlard Coles. Forthcoming Canadian Publication: May 6th, 2025. This beautiful book is replete with colour...

currents.bluewatercruising.org/article/the-...

Palmerston 🇨🇰 South Pacific. Population 25, all descended from ship's captain William Marsters and his 3 Polynesian wives. Only reachable by sea; one of 50 remote destinations featured in Under Wide and Starry Skies; review in Replies. Note the rock to the NW of the main island😀

💙📚"Under Wide and Starry Skies will create dreams; if you are fortunate enough to own a sailboat, it will inspire you to GO. As Nicholas states: “Don’t dally too long. It’s always later than you think.” currents.bluewatercruising.org/article/the-...

Secure | Liberal Party of Canada The world is increasingly dangerous and divided. Now, more than ever, we need to secure Canadian sovereignty by strengthening our military, making our communities more resilient, and protecting oursel...

At a time when international partners are slashing overseas aid budgets (and with the rival Conservatives promising to follow them), it's some consolation to see that a 🇨🇦 Liberal government would maintain humanitarian assistance at a minimum of $800m. liberal.ca/cstrong/secu...

There is one destination in particular that - unfortunately - is likely to be "Less Travelled" for some time yet: Alkwasir Island, on the Blue Nile above Khartoum!

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Under Wide and Starry Skies Cast off the lines and discover 50 of the most fabulous off-the-beaten-track sailing destinations on our planet.If you own a sailing boat, chances are that you'…

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