So we’ve made it back from our first ever week at sea in training with the amazing On Deck who have taken it upon themselves to make sure we are not completely ignorant of the enormity of our task. Both of us feel like we are still not to be left alone with a yacht by any means. We can safely call ourselves incompetent  crew. Next week we do one more week training and we HAVE to pass the day skipper course if we are to be able to go. We have realised just how damned dangerous this is. Shit!

In the mean time we are doing a show to raise money for the yacht which we still don’t have. (Remember the bigger the yacht the more money goes to sailability. Please come and support us! We need your help.

Take care and see you at the Pigalle Ckub 215 Picadilly W1 to reserve call 0845 345 6053 or email reservations@vpmg.net
Phill Jupitus plus Britney Spiers will be appearing.

So, I decided, when I was completely broke at the beginning of the year, to try to defy the credit crunch by attempting to sail out of it on my own yacht (I don’t actually have a yacht). I decided I would try to get one using only positive thinking, a camera and talking to people -  I had nothing to lose.) I soon convinced my close and foolish mate, Richard Glover, also completely broke, to come come with me. He had never sailed anything in his life before either but, like me, had always wanted to have a yacht and be like Julio Iglesias or Rod Stuart. As we’re comedians we decided that, if we could actually somehow get our dream yacht, we would sail it around Scotland, from Glasgow, around Cape Wrath, to the Edinburgh Festival. Our plan: get a yacht, learn to sail it from scratch, sail it around Scotland, from Glasgow to Edinburgh, write a show about it on the way, and perform it live at the Edinburgh Festival. (Perhaps recklessly, we have already booked the 400 seat venue in a gung-ho moment of frightening over confidence.)

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