Welcome Aboard!
Casting off, sailing, changing our lives, taking the time to live — as a family, quite simply — from one landfall to the next, discovering new cultures, new landscapes, new faces.
Welcome aboard!
The voyage Today we are living a dream: leaving as a family. We left dry land in January 2006 and have lived aboard Milo One ever since. Heading west, carried by wind and current, weaving between the northern and southern hemispheres, our wake has lengthened year after year across the seas and oceans of the world. Casting off, sailing, changing our lives, taking the time to live — as a family, quite simply, from one landfall to the next: new cultures, new landscapes, new faces, and the plain joy of shared moments — fleeting, generous, intense, and always unforgettable. A life-sized adventure, and a magnificent human one.
Around the world in 80 years… We left with no return date. A month, five years — we had no idea whether this life would suit us. The unknowns were many and the uncertainties immense. Many set out with the same dream and find themselves stuck, for a thousand reasons, unable to carry on — though never regretting having tried.
Few are mad enough to set about making their dreams real. Our departure we owe to our captain: mad enough to go, yet always master of the plan.
Cast off the lines, leave, go elsewhere, with a dream — sail around the world.
We would like to share this rather unusual experience with you: to spark a calling, to take you travelling, to make you dream.
Westward! Corne de Brume & Captain
Leaving — a dream to be lived?
More than a dream, it was a real plan, born of a deep need for self-reliance: to leave in a home sweet home under sail, free, at a certain distance from the consumer world. Both of us newcomers to the sailing world, with no particular knowledge of it — the captain bringing his windsurfing years, and I my seasickness. It seemed wise to find our sea legs gently: browsing the internet, working through the books, taking it as the wind and water came. To get to know the boat, we criss-crossed the Mediterranean, sailed to Tunisia with three crew and an au pair, put miles under the keel as far as Greece with a reduced crew, crossed the Atlantic as three (not counting Oscar, then two years old) and the Pacific as a family — finally on our own. The landsman-to-sailor transformation happened gradually, naturally, with time, experience and confidence.
“With a good boat, a good crew, good preparation and the right state of mind… the world is yours.” — Jimmy Cornell
An invitation to travel
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| The Kuna of the San Blas archipelago | Read more |
Milo-One’s route around the world
