The first person we came into contact with after arriving in Grenada was a lovely Gentleman called Jools, he rowed up to Bob in a small wooden boat and commented on our courtesy flag, which was about 4 times the size that it should be. He makes courtesy flags for a living and after some discussion he agreed to make us a Dominica flag, as the company I bought the gigantic flags from gave me a Dominican Republic flag rather than a Dominica one. So now we at least have one flag that is the right size. We explored the area [View Full Entry]

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Wow! What an experience. So, I suppose I’ll start from the beginning and tell you the whole story. We went through customs and set off from St Georges harbour in Bermuda at about 2.30pm on the 20th December, already a day later than planned. It reached just 4pm before Shannon vomited, setting in her sea sickness for the next few days. The beginning was incredibly uncomfortable; I don’t think I was expecting the movement of the sea to throw us around quite as much as it did. I managed to stop myself from throwing up for about four hours before having [View Full Entry]

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This is just a short entry to let you know that we're moving onto the boat today. We're going to sail to St Georges this afternoon then set off to the Caribbean tomorrow! It's going to be a busy day of provisioning and getting the finishing touches done. It looks like we will be at sea for Christmas, so I will catch you all up on our journey when I get to land. Our first stop will probably be Grenada to pick up Ed on the 4th of January. See you all in a few weeks. [View Full Entry]

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Well, I’ve been in Bermuda for over 2 weeks now and have spent the majority of my time working on the boat. When I saw Bob in the boat yard for the first time I was not at all surprised that she looked like a bomb site! Alex likes to work in what he calls ‘organised mess’, which is a state of chaos and untidiness to everyone else but him. We’ve got quite a lot of big jobs done; we have a toilet now which is definitely a bonus. All the major structural jobs have also now been done and Bob [View Full Entry]

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I should point out that this is the countdown for my flight to Bermuda, not for the Caribbean sail itself. That countdown may be considerably longer as Alex, the captain of the ship, has just given me a list of things that still need to be done to the yacht before we can set sail. This includes removing the headstay backing plate at the base of the mast, re-fit both the mast and headstay plates (once he gets the new ones made), re-core the foredeck, fit new water tanks, plus a lot more. That’s not even half the stuff that needs [View Full Entry]

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