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 […]
Canary Islands
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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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Yes, inertia has been broken. After getting a disappointing weather forecast for our trip to the Cape Verde Islands we all felt restless and decided that moving to another port of call was in order. We had planned on leaving Thursday night, but there was no wind, so we […]