Having far too much of a good time to get of my butt and get into some serious blogging so apologies (once again) for being slack and not keeping up to date in blog world. So much so, we are now in Cartagena in Colombia and I am in catch up mode. So back to Bonaire and the story of the three plus weeks we had there. We arrived on Bonaire on Australia Day (the 26th of January for you non Aussies) and caught up with the crew of Nika who had very kindly made Anzac Biscuits for us. They were leaving the next day so we spent as much time as we could with them and they introduced us to some new friends they had made from the boat Allways Sunday, Ricky and Robin and ... read more

Well what a slacky I have been, here we are sitting in the True Blue Marina in the suburb of True Blue (No Australian association that I can find of) and getting ready to set sail tomorrow for the Venezualan Island of Los Roques and thus ending our time in the Caribbean. We have been here over a month already and while I had all good intentions of blogging more regularly, a couple of things got in my way, the usual being the lack of internet and the second thing has been this settling into the Caribbean lifestyle, that is to say, take it easy mon, you don wanna rush dis ting called life mon, you gotta relax brother, tings will get done man. And so that is the way of the word. So I have ... read more

Hi everyone, sorry for the lack of blogs recently but we have been just a tad busy getting ready to cross the Atlantic. We have been in Las Palmas on the island of Gran Canaria in the Canary Islands for the past 12 days. There are 218 yachts and crew here and everyone has been running around like blue a#@^ed flies getting their boats ready to go. We leave here tomorrow at 1.00pm for the official start of the crossing. The "Canaries are sensational and I will post more about our time on the islands of Isle Grasciosa and Lanzarotte when we get across to St Lucia as well as the time we have been here in Las Palmas. There are 218 yachts taking part in the rally, some in the racing division and the rest ... read more

Lagos to the Island of Porto Santo - 450 nautical miles. We spent our last day at the Sopromar Boat Yard getting the boat readied and the last few glitches with the windows being sorted out at last. Final provisioning was done for what we had anticipated was going to be about a four day passage. Debs has been very busy cooking up lots of individual meals that we just have to slip into the oven and half an hour later, voila!! Instant meal. We tried this out on our Bay of Biscay crossing and it worked a treat and I am sure it will be just as successful on this passage. We met up with Kel and Kerry from a Hanse 470 called Freedom. We had spent some time with Kel in the Hamble at ... read more

Lisbon (Oeiras) - Sines - Sagres - Lagos - LATE BREAKING NEWS We tied up in Oeiras Marina, smack bang next to a boat called Solitude, a very large and beautiful looking Hanse 54. Small Nest was a couple of boats away and, as usual, saw a few other boats we had shared marinas with since we struck Portugal, a few of them being British and Northern European Yachts heading south to make the Canary Islands for the start of the Atlantic Rally for Cruisers which leaves from Las Palmas on the island of Grand Canarias for the 2800 mile crossing of the Atlantic to St Lucia in the Caribbean. We had been talking to Willem and Haike about their arrangements of doing the A.R.C and making their way through the Panama and across the Pacific ... read more