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We have been overwhelmed by the wonderful messages of congratulations we have received.   Your support has been fantastic and we really appreciated having the various emails of encouragement.  Apologies that no individual replies have been sent as yet, but we are now back firing on all cylinders so you will hear from us soon.    There […]

The Windward Islands are known for weed (a vital ingredient of the Rastafarian religion!) - it seems appropriate that, as far as Claire is concerned, it will forever be remembered as the source of her  'pot'!    The silence on the blog since our arrival in Martinique has been due entirely to Claire's attempts to sort […]

HO HO HO … and I bet you thought you’d heard the last of us for a few weeks!    Well, we have our ways & means and we are now sending you our greetings for a wonderful Christmas and every best wish for a great start to 2014!   If, by any chance, you have had […]

This is it, Jon has arrived on Hecla so we’re off tomorrow on the start of the third (and major) leg of our trip.  We have so far sailed a total of 3,646nm since leaving Portishead at the end of June.    1,003nm for the first leg (Portishead – Spain), 2,643nm for the second (Spain – […]

We have now finalised our crew list for the Atlantic crossing and would like to introduce you to the whole team, including our ‘on board’ pets.    We feel that with this team we will be able to cross the Atlantic in the fastest and most efficient way.  Our apologies to all those who applied for […]

We were not actually made an offer that we couldn’t afford to refuse, but we did find ourselves travelling in an Aluguer (local mini bus) back from Ribeiro Brava to our anchorage at Tarrafal with a dead pig’s head! It was one of our more memorable trips. The passengers were a lively bunch and when […]

We have been somewhat starved of WiFi recently so have only been able to send our location details.   We are now in Mindelo(after a rather more exciting passage than we had expected with 40 knot winds!)  on the island of Sao Vicente where we have better connections so the website has been updated with photos […]

OK it's quiz time again - the question is not who supplied the goods, nor how many shares did we buy in the company .... but how many items are on the table?     Reminiscent of count the smarties in the jar and how heavy is the cake!!   Have fun and whoever comes up with the […]

We finally left Palmeira on Sunday with extra crew on board. Tig and Stephen came up from Santa Maria by taxi and joined us for the sail back down the coast. We had fabulous conditions and are now anchored off Santa Maria – a bit of a rolly anchorage but beautiful sandy beach and clear […]

Yesterday I went and visited great friends in their rather sumptuous all inclusive hotel complex in the south of the island, just outside Santa Maria.   I travelled down south with Swallow and we went by Alugueras which was fun, if a little on the windy side for the Espargos to Santa Maria part of the […]