Position: 19deg07'.934N 028deg49'.728W (ie somewhere in the Atlantic - sorry that´s as close as I can guess)
Distance traveled: 986 Nautical miles (about 1800km)
Distance to go: 1956 Nauti miles (about alot more)

So 7 days down and cruising comfortably << MORE >>

Well we started anyway. It is 2700 Nautical Miles from here to Barbados and we hope to make it in less than twenty days. WE are now at 23deg 59'N 17deg 34'W.<< MORE >>

Okay I think I am starting to see what the buzz about cruising (as opposed to sitting in marinas waiting for work to be done). I am currently sitting 240 Nautical miles (about 430 kms) off the coast of Morocco on a rhum line to Las Palmas Gran Canaria and everything is going to plan. Let me paint a picture of the last 48 hours.....
Friday night, off the coast of Portugal, after cooking Duck a l'Orange for the crew ( yeah I know Macca, I'm a disgrace but you will also be pleased to know that at least one of ...<< MORE >>

After some vacillation, we took the decision to cop a bit of bad weather up front to make an easy turn around the corner at Finesterre, and here we are day three finally with a weather forecast that was right!<< MORE >>

Hi All,

Well we have a boat - looking good, sounding good and travelling good on our trip down from St Gilles. We have a crew - Mark and Priscilla arrived Tuesday afternoon as we were putting the boat back together and yesterday we prepared the boat. It is all ready to go - but alas the weather gods have decided that we 4 souther hemishere, sub-tropical / tropical inhabitants are not yet cold enough to spend 4 cold days at sea and has shut the gate on Finisterre on Saturday morning just before we planned to arrive.

Given this, our desire to get ...<< MORE >>

Hi All,

This is a test blog from my email to see if I will be able to update the blog at sea - so sorry no photos.

It has been an interesting time since arriving back in France. On the drive down from Paris, we got a call from the manager of the company doing the work on our boat for us to tell us that some boats in the work yard had been broken into over the weekend (ours being one of them – so he wasn't just ringing to chat) but it didnÂ't look like anything was taken. ...<< MORE >>

Well Karen and I have decided to jump off from the relative safety of the Bay of Biscay and head to the sunny climes of the Caribbean. So this is take two. The boat will be thoroughly inspected and tweaked while here in France, so this is probably the best time to head across on such a trip. So we have put up an ad on the Cruisers Forum to get an experienced crew member to cross with us. The ad goes like this:

Where II? France to the Bahamas

I am Looking for Crew

Boat size & type: Lagoon 420 Sailing Catamaran
Embark ...<< MORE >>