Christmas 2016 was really very different in more ways than one: we celebrated it on Christmas Eve at Hutson Cay with a fabulous dinner of lobster, conch and octopus, as well as the more traditional mincemeat shortbread and brandy butter; it was an international evening in three languages and we sang carols (in two languages), […]
Actually a 61st ..... We hosted a traditional birthday tea party this year (without the jelly and ice cream - too hot!!!) to celebrate Claire's ever increasing wisdom ... and years!!! We'd made it to the anchorage in Placencia, Belize and were reunited with our French, Swiss, Austrian and Canadian friends so decided that something […]
What a wonderful country. Although it's such a good feeling to be sailing again there is so much about this beautiful country that we shall miss. The people who smile and laugh, who bargain and barter with such good humour and who just love life. The fabulous fruit and veg and delicious meat, the howler […]
Wonderful, brilliant and totally fantasmagorical - we are on our way. Getting a working wind instrument (ST50) has been a real saga with our package going missing, tracing it via a third party in UK and then arranging onward posting from Mixco where it had arrived as expected but then was overlooked and a different […]
We can't believe it! We were supposed to have been one of the first boats amongst our friends to leave the Rio and here we are one of the very last. We waved goodbye to Makani, Harmonie and Telefine yesterday and this morning Beyzano weighed anchor heading for the crystal clear waters north of Guatemala. […]
Well the sun came out but we are still sitting at anchor in Shell Bay on the Rio Dulce! However, we've been busy mending, painting, varnishing and partying (no change there then, we hear you say!!). James has been up and down the mast over a dozen times trying to sort out our wind indicator […]