Position 14.22,-64.978 at 11:25 BST ETA at 5 knts 12:37 8th Apr. 873 miles to go Wind E 5 167 miles by GPS since yesterday – a 0.5knot current helps. I had quite forgotten how nice it is to be at sea on your own. Atlantic was full of ARC boats etc. Here we have […]
Entries from April 2009
At Sea: Caribbean sea to ourselves
April 1st, 2009 · Comments Off on At Sea: Caribbean sea to ourselves
Tags: At Sea · Atlantic Leg
At Sea: Charter boats behind
April 1st, 2009 · Comments Off on At Sea: Charter boats behind
Position at 11:25 BST 14.174, -62.068 1064 miles to go. ETA San Blas Islands (Porvenir) at 5knts 22:18 8th April Wind ESE 4/5 with rain squalls to 6 We finally got away at 20:00 last night. The anchorage had quite a few new arrivals yesterday that had anchored very close to existing boats so its […]
Tags: At Sea · Atlantic Leg
Preparations and Reflections
April 1st, 2009 · Comments Off on Preparations and Reflections
“What’s that dinghy doing in the middle of nowhere? It looks just like Benny Junior’s beaten out tender” We collect it and put back on a mooring as we leave Harmony beach. I wonder if Benny will use a different knot from now on! Will he get lessons from the children on the beach he […]
Tags: Atlantic Leg · Contacts for good info
Yo ho ho and a bottle of rum or two or three or four …. or nineteen
April 1st, 2009 · Comments Off on Yo ho ho and a bottle of rum or two or three or four …. or nineteen
Just two again but not for long. Jane and Alisdair have agreed to go into the courier service and their first job is to St. Lucia, delivering parts to a yacht in transit. They have allowed themselves one week to find Giselle. However we know the arrival times of planes from London and they are […]
Tags: Atlantic Leg · Friends & Family
