This week we have upcoming Melbourne and Sydney major events, a moving documentary portrait of Jon Wilson, more orca trouble, Viking sailing, Easter Island good news and the happy by-product of offshore wind farms.

An Orca sinking story from the Pacific, a new Bruce King boat for sale, why you should go small, why you should go simple, holidaying on a Thames barge in Essex…. and much more!

The boat was holed and sunk, and Bill and Simonne took to a four-person coastal liferaft. This in the days when EPIRBs broadcast distress signals only on 121.5 MHz to passing aircraft. The couple christened their raft LAST CHANCE and ultimately survived on a diet of raw fish that Bill caught.