Atlantic Homecoming: Veteran Crew, Storm Survival & Ireland Landfall

Send us Fan MailBritish Army veterans, blue-water miles, and one roaring Atlantic storm. In this episode we leave the Caribbean, grab a rare weather window, and push Salamanca east for Southern Ireland and a long-awaited homecoming. Expect real seamanship — reefed main, storm jib, four-hour watches, damage control drills, and the kind of gallows humour only service life teaches. After 30 hours of heavy weather we make landfall in Baltimore (Ireland), cruise the Scilly Isles, then hop Plymouth → Dartmouth → Portland → Newtown Creek before finally sliding into Gosport. We celebrate with a proper veterans’ debrief (tea, pies, and Guinness), then reveal our new Solent base — a purpose-built studio, “The Salamanca Club,” and a bike workshop ready for future Riding Through History tours.If you love military and life stories, offshore sailing adventures, veteran camaraderie, rugby banter, skiing grit, and Cold War/BAOR nostalgia from postings to Germany in the 1970s, ’80s, ’90s, ’00s and ’10s, you’re in the right place. Subscribe for PSYOPS-level storytelling, honest mental health chat, and hard-won lessons from the ocean and the field.👉 Like, comment, and share with a mate who’d crew the night watch. #BritishArmyVeteran #AtlanticCrossing #SailingLife #MilitaryStories #Veterans #ScillyIsles #Gosport #Solent #BlueWaterSailing #RidingThroughHistorySupport the show