We're Woody and Irenka and we have spend the last 8 years circumnavigating the world on a sailboat with our three 3 kids. Now back on dry land, we have developed this Podcast Guide to escaping the rat race and living a life of freedom, travel and adventure at sea with your kids.
▷FULL PRESS: https://www.mothershipadrift.com/about
▷BOOK: 'If you want to do it. DO IT!': https://www.mothershipadrift.com/mothershipadriftbook
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We spent years talking about sailing off with the kids and doing precisely nothing about it. Then came Steve: a friend with a deafening motorbike who turned up every week to ask what we had actually achieved since last time. He was our accountability buddy, and he is the reason we stopped dreaming and started looking for a boat. This one is about finding your own Steve, dodging Someday Isle, and why a big plan lives or dies on whether you keep it moving.
Cockpit Sessions serialises our book, one section at a time, as a conversation between the two of us.
The book: https://www.alanwoodywood.com/books/doit
Everything else: https://www.mothershipadrift.com
1 Oct 2026
Some Insurance Is Just Fear Sold Back to You
Eight years sailing round the world, three kids aboard, and the bare minimum of insurance backed by our own emergency fund. In all that time we never withdrew anything close to what full cover would have cost. Irenka's broken finger in Martinique that should have been €1,800 and came to €200, the dinghy claim we regretted, the bilge pump that could have voided a total-loss payout, the rabid dog I only worried about months later, and why healthcare outside the US costs far less than most people fear. Insurance can be a safety net. It shouldn't be a set of handcuffs.
Cockpit Sessions serialises the book, one section at a time, as a conversation between the two of us.
The book: https://www.alanwoodywood.com/books/doit (https://www.alanwoodywood.com/books/doit)
Everything else: https://www.mothershipadrift.com (https://www.mothershipadrift.com)
24 Sept 2026
Not Practical Is Just an Excuse
I don't think anybody is born practical. Irenka and I talk about learning to fix our own boat: the pub conversation I couldn't follow, the dead outboard I bought for 25 quid, the mechanic who rang me from a bar at nine at night to argue, and the time I asked ChatGPT how to wire a switch and fried the unit. Irenka also tells me why she was really in tears in Malaysia.
Cockpit Sessions serialises the book, one section at a time, as a conversation between the two of us.
The book: https://www.alanwoodywood.com/books/doit (https://www.alanwoodywood.com/books/doit)
Everything else: https://www.mothershipadrift.com (https://www.mothershipadrift.com)
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