Court Short

At last, after a week of hard grafting we're in the water!  We're delighted with the new boot top and cove line - all we have to do now is put the main and yankee back on and we're away ..... well, that was the plan until we discovered that Yama HaHa is feeling Boo […]

After lots of comments about our blog while we were back in UK we decided to try and turn over a new leaf.   There's going to be less about sundowners and more about adventures, people and, I guess, food!  Well, we can always hope and since we haven’t had a rum punch yet it's looking […]

After a really easy flight to Grenada we are now back on board Ocean Rainbow (admittedly after 2 nights in La Sagesse’s wonderful boutique hotel to help acclimatisation!).   We are settling back into our life afloat, although we’re not exactly afloat quite yet we’re still on the hard!    Ocean Rainbow is in great order.  Her […]

Ocean Rainbow came out of the water with a hairy, barnacle encrusted bottom and her propeller looked even worse! However, after application of a big scraper, a bit of pressure hosing, elbow grease and wizard lotion called ‘On Off’ both the hull and the prop are almost as good as new.   She is now safe […]

We left True Blue Bay and sailed to St David’s Bay to recce Grenada Marine. We’re delighted, we received a very warm welcome and the facilities are exactly what we need for Ocean Rainbow’s stay ashore during hurricane season.   As an added bonus, Ishtar and Kyory were in the bay so we had sundowners and […]

We’ve actually travelled over 7000nm in the last year, visited 15 countries, 28 different islands, anchored in 121 different bays and harbours and last stayed in a marina on 21st November – somewhat more of a challenge than we first imagined.   Now we are preparing to haul Ocean Rainbow out and spend the hurricane season […]

Well it had to happen at some stage but ne’er mind we are not phased!!   Last night’s supper was extra delicious with the addition of weevils in the rice – cost saving too as we could cut down on the mince content of the chilli. It’s perhaps a good job that Ishtar refused the offer […]

We spent a totally magical evening on Levera beach on the northeast coast of Grenada.    After a briefing from one of the guides we were taken to watch the 'turtle volunteers' release some hatchlings that had emerged earlier in the day (taken off the beach in the heat of the day and released at […]

Well that’s got your attention!! We’re actually referring to the state of Claire’s hands as she continues to make winch covers by hand!   The windlass cover is complete but there is an added task – we got back to OR yesterday and found that the forepeak hatch cover had blown off!   This means working with […]

On terra firma ‘Mr Ovenu’ rescues Claire’s cooker on an annual basis – sadly on Ocean Rainbow this is not the case.   Today Claire bit the bullet and spent a very long time on the bathing platform removing the evidence of a year’s worth of baking and roasting!   Luckily, there was a welcome break in […]