Welcome to sailing. Everything you do is dictated by the weather! And guess what? The weather says do not go! The humans had been checking the weather, but greatly distracted by getting the boat prepared for two Atlantic passages. After getting everything sorted last night they had a chance to […]
Monthly archives: January 2013
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SCARRY! We are off tomorrow morning for another first for us. This will be our longest journey yet. About 800nm from Fuerteventura in the Canary Islands to Sal in the Cape Verde Islands. This should take us about a week. We think we have everything ready, but you never […]
Well the human’s are getting closer to ‘launch’. It is taking them ‘forever’ to get organised. Warning to those that are following us to sea. Take the number of days you think it will take to get ready for a long passage and double it. And try to build in […]
Yes we are still in Gran Tarajal. It was always our plan to stop some where ‘economical’ and do some work on the boat. It was a sensible idea, because the summer weather in Britain is so short and variable. If you really want to be effiecient, go some where […]
January 7th is one of my human’s birthdays. And what does a man want when he turns 47 years old? He wants to be imbarrised by a load of balloons. He wants to have his age plastered on a banner so everyone can see. And he wants […]
Well my human’s are not the only boat hard at work in preparations to leave. You may remember Limbo, a boat we have run into since Porto Santo in the Madierian Islands. They have started to stock up on food for the crossing. It is great that the local […]