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  We finally managed to get out and have a sail having stowed everything safely! A photo as evidence! We still haven't got our liferaft back from Ocean Safety so an empty cradle on the coach roof and we haven't put on the staysail but other than that - everything in good working order and […]

Capitalising on a visit to Northern Ireland to catch up with my great girlfriend Anne, I had face-to-face tuition from her son Richard, without whose help we would never have had a website.  Now I'm hoping I can get photos and videos uploaded more efficiently.  We even have a location map for anyone who wants […]

I've spent many nights home alone ashore but this is the first night home alone on board!  Ocean Rainbow has to be one of our friendliest homes; she's warm, she's spacious and I'm sure it won't be long before we have everything stowed safely and we can once more set to sea!

We're almost there .... the house is empty and we're living on board.  Claire has even been commuting to work from Ocean Rainbow!   Today she retired and her life is about to change as she becomes a 'lady of leisure'!

Wow, Yachting Monthly has written about the Warrior 40 - Ocean Rainbow is a little older than Chicos, she isn't quite the same layout, we don't have in-mast furling (thank goodness) and our staysail is on a boom ...... but apart from that everything else applies.   Now we hope you can understand why we are […]

Jon has stolen a march on us!  He is the first of the PWRCC to leave on his adventures.  We hope to meet up with him in the Cape Verde Islands.    We'll miss him ... who's going to supervise all the updates on Ocean Rainbow?  Bon Voyage!   Jon's blog

This whole move is a little daunting with the final moving 'on board' scheduled for completion this weekend and the enormity of the challenge facing us actually registering!     I couldn't face any more packing this morning so I decided to finish off the ironing and came across a T shirt with one of our favourite […]

Jon Lister came to our aid yet again and helped with the furniture removal to Bruton and James was in his element as 'white van man'.   Two trips and we have almost established our new pied-a-terre.

        Ocean Rainbow and Hecla of Uist are now ready to set off on their travels having been resoundingly well blessed by Ruth Walker ably assisted by Peter - our lovely vicar friends from our time in Norway.   Mutt (James' mother) christened our tender 'Puddle' (a drop in an ocean) and Claire […]

Just back from a week's skiing (which was a great break before the big 'pack-up' begins in earnest) to find that our Musto jackets, which we thought were beyond repair, have been returned by Mick in Customer Services in full working order.  Great service Mick and lovely doing business with you!