The photos from the week so far are in the gallery Link to gallery

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Videos of Rebecca’s time with us loaded now

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The temporary closure of the jail is true but not connected to Jane and Alisdair’s escape from Scotland. We’ve made Jane and Alisdair feel really at home with our longest period of rain to date. I suppose 28’C does contrast a bit with Scottish rain though. Chris, from the Caribbean Weather Centre that we listen [...]

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Pictures from Rebecca’s fortnight with us are in the gallery. We got all the way down to Grenada, well the lovely off lying island of Carriacou. Swam and snorkelled in the Tobago cays. Signed in and out of Bequia twice. Sampled the delights of Marigot bay, St Lucia and had a great meal at Bennies [...]

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Rebecca jojned us in St Lucia. The pilot was pleased to announce the snow in London. Hot enough to melt people here! Now down in Bequia and off to Grenada island of Carriacou today.

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So we have been sailing here for 6 weeks and got used to the grouping of the southern islands as the Windward Islands (Martinique, St Lucia, St Vincent, Grenada) and the northern islands as the leewards (Dominica, Guadeloupe, Antigua etc). We are in the North East trade winds. How are the northern islands to leeward [...]

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Well we had a Christmas visitor, he arrived just after we had tidied and cleaned Giselle from our Atlantic crossing and our signing in to Martinique. He was tall, no white beard in fact clean shaven and he brought lots of news and a big bag with presents for Christmas day. A more than welcome [...]

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I’m not going to say much about the crossing as David hopefully gave you a feeling for it each day as we crossed. There wasn’t much to see, water, sky, sometimes cloud, stars, and always flying fish, even at night, flying fish. We even had a squid on deck one night. Our watch system worked, [...]

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an extra 3 photos to the Cape Verde and Atlantic 1 albums. The whole of Atlantic 2 is new as is Christmas in the Winward Islands David

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We have worked out why they call the islands Windward islands. We had an exhilarating windward sail from Bequia to Martinique (about a 100miles) to get Andrew back for his flight. At the moment Occasional islands would fit as well. Occasional showers get you up in the middle of the night to shut the hatches! [...]

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