“Leadership by Four-Letter Word”  - Captain Kitty’s Log - UNCHARTED - Special E01

14 March 2026

In this irreverent, adventure-packed beginning, a fiercely loyal, foul-mouthed mum defends swearing as a health tonic while revealing how her torturous PT and quietly manipulative dad push her to do far more than she thinks she can. Just as she’s piecing together how challenge shapes her, a year of discovering that sailing is a brutal, no-mercy sport culminates in a Scout sailing camp gone sideways: the official leader throws out his back and, with all the nonchalance of offering a takeaway coffee, hands her command. Now unexpectedly promoted from snack-duty parent to Scout Leader in Charge, she must captain a crew of kids through choppy waters and emotional storms, armed only with grit, loyalty, and an Olympic-level swearing vocabulary that might just save everyone—from actual mutiny and from herself.

Capt Kitty’s full story starts here: Part 1

https://180letters.substack.com/p/sailing-through-fing-life