Practical Boat Owner

Channel hopping

More than merely bumbling along

At over 6,000 subscribers just two months after launch, The Bumbling Sailor has the growth and engagement many longer-established, and frankly more knowledgeable, sailing YouTubers can only dream about. The channel is the creation of (by hilarious coincidence, also the name of a commandeered sewage recycling ship on his favourite TV series ) and since then has been living aboard, afloat and in the yard, while he attempts to make her seaworthy before the annual berth in Newhaven Marina expires.

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