Mothership Adrift Podcast
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 ⒸⓄⓃⓃⒺⒸⓉ Mothership Adrift, Family Travel and Sailing Adventures Search: "Mothership Adrift" for all social media channels
Episodes
Irenka can get an eight-year-old sailing in 16 hours. She taught for years before we left, and she's blunt about it: the sailing was never the thing standing in anyone's way. So we spend this one on what actually is. Where to start with no boat and no money, why a flotilla beats a course, the honeymoon couple who stopped speaking on day one, and what skippers really look for when they take on crew.
Cockpit Sessions serialises our bo...
Getting rid of almost everything weowned was one of the most freeing things we ever did. Irenka and I talk through what you really do with all your stuff when you sail off: selling, storing, digitising and letting go, and the china dog she made me sell.
Cockpit Sessions is our sailing book,serialised one section at a time.
Free book sample:https://www.mothershipadrift.com/mothershipadriftbook
Website:https://www.mothershipadrift.com
Ge...
SPOTIFY DESCRIPTION: Walking away from a career feels like career suicide, but the wage is usually the least of it. What you’re really giving up is the identity and status that come with the job. Irenka and I get into what actually happens to your work when you go, whether you can take it with you, and why a break is more survivable than it looks. Plus the ten year gap that knocked Irenka’s confidence, and why we s...
Money stops more families going than anything else, so this episode is the honest budget. What a boat really costs, the bargain boat trap, how five of us lived on about £2,000 a month, the £200 wedding, and why Irenka would do the whole thing again in a smaller boat.
Cockpit Sessions serialises our book one section at a time, as a conversation between the two of us.
Free book sample: https://www.mothershipadrift.com/mothershipadriftb...
You can't convince a reluctant partner to sail round the world, and trying is how these plans fall apart before they start. Irenka and I on the difference between fear and simply not wanting to go, why convincing is the wrong goal, and how we found out years in that we'd wanted the same trip for different reasons.
Cockpit Sessions serialises our book one chapter at a time, a two-hander on escaping the rat race by sea.
Book and free s...
Everyone warns that the hardest part of sailing away is losing your people. Friends, family, the whole sense of belonging. Eight years and a full circumnavigation later, it went the other way. The friends that mattered got closer, and we found a second family at sea on top.
Before you even leave, some people start pulling away, which feels a lot like grief. Irenka's mum kept our spirits up with a steady supply of newspaper clippings...
Taking the kids out of school was the most frightening part of going. It felt like hitting a big red eject button on their future. Eight years and a full circumnavigation later, both boys are back on land and reintegrated, and the honest answer is: they were fine. Better than fine. Just not in the ways a report card measures.
This is the answer to the question more Telegraph readers asked than any other. Their academic side held up....
The problem was never inspiration. It was hesitation. Procrastination. That fatal gap between deciding and actually doing.
This is the episode where we admit how close we came to stopping. The maintenance disasters in Colombia, Malaysia and Australia. The canal crossings where turning back was still an option. The businesses we folded, the friends we didn't expect to miss, and the identity each of us had to give up to leave. We also...
We're the Wood family - Woody, Irenka, Rowan, Darroch & Yewan. 8 years circumnavigating on a sailboat with 3 kids
• ~40,000 miles
• ~40 countries & territories
• BOOK RELEASE July 2026: "Mothership Adrift: A Dad's Guide to Escaping the Rat Race and Living a Life of Freedom, Travel and Adventure on the Sea with Your Kids"
▷FREE SAMPLE: https://www.mothershipadrift.com/mothershipadriftbook
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🎬 AS FEATURED IN:
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We're the Wood family - Woody, Irenka, Rowan, Darroch & Yewan. 8 years circumnavigating on a sailboat with 3 kids
• ~40,000 miles
• ~40 countries & territories
• BOOK RELEASE July 2026: "Mothership Adrift: A Dad's Guide to Escaping the Rat Race and Living a Life of Freedom, Travel and Adventure on the Sea with Your Kids"
▷FREE SAMPLE: https://www.mothershipadrift.com/mothershipadriftbook
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🎬 AS FEATURED IN:
▷Amazon P...
We're the Wood family - Woody, Irenka, Rowan, Darroch & Yewan. 8 years circumnavigating on a sailboat with 3 kids
• ~40,000 miles
• ~40 countries & territories
• BOOK RELEASE July 2026: "Mothership Adrift: A Dad's Guide to Escaping the Rat Race and Living a Life of Freedom, Travel and Adventure on the Sea with Your Kids"
▷FREE SAMPLE: https://www.mothershipadrift.com/mothershipadriftbook
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🎬 AS FEATURED IN:
▷Amazon P...
No podcast this week. Just an update from the cockpit of our boat in Aktio Yard, Lefkas, in the Ionian Islands.
The boat has been on the market for six months. The market is flat. There are repairs to finish, batteries to check, a seized generator to coax back to life, and an antifoul hull that has developed an unfortunate chalky white bloom thanks to the new EU-approved environmentally friendly formula.
Progress.The other job today...
We're the Wood family - Woody, Irenka, Rowan, Darroch & Yewan. 8 years circumnavigating on a sailboat with 3 kids
• ~40,000 miles
• ~40 countries & territories
• BOOK RELEASE July 2026: "Mothership Adrift: A Dad's Guide to Escaping the Rat Race and Living a Life of Freedom, Travel and Adventure on the Sea with Your Kids"▷FREE SAMPLE: https://www.mothershipadrift.com/mothershipadriftbook
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🎬 AS FEATURED IN:
▷Amazon Prime's "Ad...
We're the Wood family - Woody, Irenka and 3 kids circumnavigating on a sailboat for 8 years
• ~40,000 miles
• ~40 countries & territories
• BOOK RELEASE July 2026: "Mothership Adrift: A Dad's Guide to Escaping the Rat Race and Living a Life of Freedom, Travel and Adventure on the Sea with Your Kids"
https://www.mothershipadrift.com/mothershipadriftbook
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🎬 AS FEATURED IN:
▷Amazon Prime's "Adventure in Wonder"
- Sizzle Reel: https...
We're the Wood family - Woody, Irenka and 3 kids circumnavigating on a sailboat for 8 years
• ~40,000 miles
• ~40 countries & territories
• BOOK RELEASE June 2026: "Mothership Adrift: A Dad's Guide to Escaping the Rat Race and Living a Life of Freedom, Travel and Adventure on the Sea with Your Kids"
https://www.mothershipadrift.com/mothershipadriftbook
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🎬 AS FEATURED IN:
▷Amazon Prime's "Adventure in Wonder"
- Sizzle Reel: https...
We're the Wood family - Woody, Irenka and 3 kids circumnavigating on a sailboat for 8 years
• ~40,000 miles
• ~40 countries & territories
• BOOK RELEASE June 2026: "Mothership Adrift: A Dad's Guide to Escaping the Rat Race and Living a Life of Freedom, Travel and Adventure on the Sea with Your Kids"
https://www.mothershipadrift.com/mothershipadriftbook
--
🎬 AS FEATURED IN:
▷Amazon Prime's "Adventure in Wonder"
- Sizzle Reel: https...
We're the Wood family - Woody, Irenka and 3 kids circumnavigating on a sailboat for 8 years
• ~40,000 miles
• ~40 countries & territories
• BOOK RELEASE June 2026: "Mothership Adrift: A Dad's Guide to Escaping the Rat Race and Living a Life of Freedom, Travel and Adventure on the Sea with Your Kids"
https://www.mothershipadrift.com/mothershipadriftbook
--
🎬 AS FEATURED IN:
▷Amazon Prime's "Adventure in Wonder"
- Sizzle Reel: https...
We're the Wood family - Woody, Irenka and 3 kids circumnavigating on a sailboat for 8 years
• ~40,000 miles
• ~40 countries & territories
• BOOK RELEASE June 2026: "Mothership Adrift: A Dad's Guide to Escaping the Rat Race and Living a Life of Freedom, Travel and Adventure on the Sea with Your Kids"
https://www.mothershipadrift.com/mothershipadriftbook
--
🎬 AS FEATURED IN:
▷Amazon Prime's "Adventure in Wonder"
- Sizzle Reel: https...
We're the Wood family - Woody, Irenka and 3 kids circumnavigating on a sailboat for 8 years
• ~40,000 miles
• ~40 countries & territories
• BOOK RELEASE MAY 2026: "Mothership Adrift: A Dad's Guide to Escaping the Rat Race and Living a Life of Freedom, Travel and Adventure on the Sea with Your Kids"
https://www.mothershipadrift.com/mothershipadriftbook
--
🎬 AS FEATURED IN:
▷Amazon Prime's "Adventure in Wonder"
- Sizzle Reel: https:...
We're the Wood family - Woody, Irenka, Rowan, Darroch & Yewan. 8 years circumnavigating on a sailboat with 3 kids • ~40,000 miles • ~40 countries & territories
▷BOOK RELEASE MAY 2026: "Mothership Adrift: A Dad's Guide to Escaping the Rat Race and Living a Life of Freedom, Travel and Adventure on the Sea with Your Kids"
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🎬 AS FEATURED IN:
▷Amazon Prime's "Adventure in Wonder" - Sizzle Reel: https://youtu.be/0YJSjKO4js8 - Trai...
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