Mr Legoman, who has been with us from the start of our journey, now feels safe to come out and enjoy the trip. He has a walrus face and when we asked for a name back came John Lennon since he sang “I am a walrus”! Staying in the rope locker he felt trying to […]

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I have taken the ‘Where Are We’ ‘posts by location’ page offline, as it has some bugs that need taken care of…  …you can still view the ‘route’ page if you wish. In the meantime you can copy / paste coordinates from the posts into google maps (Firefox users can highlight the coordinates and right-click […]

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Site updates are now completed — thank you for your patience while the site was down. Hopefully you’ll enjoy the new features:

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Now the competition, Link here to original post (opens in new window).I’ve not had any correct answers so the holiday for 2, wide screen TV and the flight to the moon will have to be carried forward to the next competition, but I guess you want to know what the wooden blocks were for. They […]

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David: Just finished the book on Captain Cook by Tony Horwitz – Into the blue: Boldly going where Captain Cook has gone before. A good read. He has done extensive research. He picks some of the key parts of the Cook story and tells the story in great detail so that you can feel what […]

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David: When I was on Pender Island just off Vancouver there was an excellent book store where you could buy second hand books and get a credit for ones you bought back. Pictures of Pender in the Gallery I got Thor Heyerdahl’s Sea Routes to Polynesia. Thor is famous for his Kon-Tiki expeditions where he […]

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David writes: Saw a bit in our local paper that they are issuing a badge for the Women’s land army. The new scheme acknowledges the tremendous efforts of the Women’s Land Army by presenting their surviving members with a specially designed badge commemorating their service and acknowledging the debt that the country owes to them. […]

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Got to see an exhibition of Pam Carter in the Morningside Gallery, Edinburgh in February. We have seen her work several times before in the Gallery on the Isle of Skye at Isle Ornsay. One year we bought this print (2001 I think). She normally sells in large envelopes. We asked if it could be […]

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I have passed the RYA Yachtmaster Ocean oral exam. This is the top sailing qualification of the RYA. So I feel I deserve recognition – saluting and calling me Sir will do!

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So I’ve set up a system to allow Mary and David to use Giselle’s SailMail email account from anywhere in the world to post to RoamingTheOceans.com… …this means we should get updates from them in the middle of their ocean passages 8^) I’m looking forward to it — are you? Andrew

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