It is 27 hours since we crossed the start line outside Nanny Cay Marina on Tortola, our home for the past 8 days. The excitement and anticipation of our travels ahead, towards Bermuda, onwards to the Azores and finally home … Continue reading
We set off from St Martin on Easter Sunday evening, at about 1700, for the 75 nautical Mile (nM) journey to Virgin Gorda. We slowed ourselves down by keeping two reefs in the main and varying the amount of jib … Continue reading
We cleared out of St Lucia as planned on Monday morning for the trip back to St Martin. What a trip! We had everything thrown at us: no wind, strong winds, torrential rain then back to no wind. Of course … Continue reading
The plan worked and we left St Martin on Wednesday heading towards Montserrat. This is the one island I was desperate to visit as, for me, it was a case of unfinished business! In 2010 we anchored in Little Bay, … Continue reading
On the first day of racing the J Class has two races, described as windward/leeward. Basically they started some way offshore, tacked their way towards the harbour until they reached a turning mark then raised spinnakers to go downwind to … Continue reading
The original plan was to stay about a week to ten days but we have now changed our minds! We spent a week in the anchorage off Gustavia, zooming in to the harbour on a regular basis. There are a … Continue reading
We spent a relaxed couple of days anchored off Tintamare Island. It’s part of a large nature reserve but the snorkelling was disappointing. We explored the island, scrambling our way along the beach on the windward side where there are … Continue reading
Hi to all The plan was to collect the new alternator Tuesday and install it on Wednesday—– —- Tuesday. Collect new alternator from Interline in Phillipsburg. Completed. Great shipping company. $10 shipping, $7.50 optional insurance. From Miami.— During day collected … Continue reading
NB I am trying to make this text more readable because it leaves me properly formatted with paragraphs. The website gets rid of the paragraph spacing and line returns. In this blog I will put in a line of 10 … Continue reading
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