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London Snow Escape

February 5th, 2009 · Comments Off on London Snow Escape

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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Leeward or Windard competition

February 5th, 2009 · 2 Comments

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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Daddy do we have any bananas?

January 28th, 2009 · Comments Off on Daddy do we have any bananas?

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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Antigua and Photo Galleries

January 20th, 2009 · Comments Off on Antigua and Photo Galleries

Had a great few days sailing up to Antigua. Including a real blast into Antigua from Deshaies on the NE corner of Guadeloupe in 25 to 30 knots of wind. The maintenance we had scheduled for St Lucia I am doing here in Falmouth harbour. All the key people are within a short dinghy ride! […]

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Rolly polly pudding

January 9th, 2009 · 1 Comment

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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Boat Boys and Aluguers

January 6th, 2009 · Comments Off on Boat Boys and Aluguers

So we left Sal and sailed overnight to isle of Santiago, this is the main island with all the administrative offices. Now for the main island and a port of entry, you would expect some visiting boats, yes, well there was Us. We rounded the corner into the harbour, and thought “What have we let […]

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Update: Lots more photos in the Gallery

January 5th, 2009 · Comments Off on Update: Lots more photos in the Gallery

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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Update: Windward or Occasional islands

January 3rd, 2009 · 2 Comments

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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Update: Address for Santa

December 24th, 2008 · Comments Off on Update: Address for Santa

We are in Admiralty bay, Bequia (pronounced Beckway) for Xmas.  Bequia is part of the Grenadines and is just to the south of St Vincent.  They drive on the left here and the bank notes have a youthful Queen Elizabeth on them which reinforces the colonial feel.  It’s hot but we are getting stronger than […]

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The Atlantic via Cape…(Verde)

December 18th, 2008 · 1 Comment

Since my last entry I’ve been busy with housework!  Yes me doing housework, almost unheard of.  David had his list of jobs too, watermaker something, car horn to fit, new socket at the back end to attach, anode to fit, bilges to look at and fit nappy!! Ask David.  I on the other hand was […]

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