Week 1 It doesn’t seem like 7 days ago that we left Las Palmas. Time has flown by and it’s surprised all of us that we’ve been sailing, non-stop, for 7 days. When we left LP it was grey, cold(er), and the sea state was pretty rotten. Matters improved greatly, the wind behaved as predicted…

Day 6 Tam Lin is catching us up. So crew not happy, although all are well! We took a gamble and headed west before many including, Tam Lin. They took the more traditional route of heading south until the butter melted and turned W. It has worked out OK for us, but our winds subsided…

Day 4 All well and crew happy. We received the following message from Rally Control Yesterday: Quote – Dear ARC Skipper. We hope you are now settling in your Atlantic routine and the chefs amongst you are keeping the crew happy with culinary delights. The first 72 hours has certainly been eventful with a number…

Day 3 Crew all well and happy. Continuing to make good progress to our desired waypoint. The sea state has improved from rough to moderate. Wave height 1-2m with a frequency of 8 seconds. Winds have shifted further S now on a NE track, which means that the reciprocal course of about 240* works really…

All well. Making good progress to our desired waypoint of 20*N 30*W by which time we should be able to step onto the trade wind travelator and scoot W over to the Caribbean! The winds at the moment are sadly just too far N for us to achieve our goal in one run and so…

Day 1 So we had a great send off from the friends and family of the ARC vessels and hundreds of locals. 120 yachts squeezed through the start line over a staggered start of an hour. There were a couple of mishaps as people slipped their lines and “kissed’ their neighbour on the way out!…

Off now.

This is Sue, just testing the system to see whether Peter and I can keep the blog going whilst he is at sea. Many of you will know that my IT skills are somewhat lacking, so we shall see what happens, but on the plus side you will see a vast improvement in the spelling.

After taking time back in the U.K. in October to recharge batteries make some more boat purchases and generally have some down time we returned to the Canaries to continue our journey to the start line in Las Palmas. Sue joined me in Lanzarote for a week for some winter sun and to avoid the…

After our sail from Arrecife we settled into PDC as it’s known. We were planning to anchor overnight. The winds stayed at 20 knots so we anchored in Playa Papagayo tucked beneath the hills. The anchor is unfortunately tucked under a rock (I dived to it to check as Pete thought it was bent!), so…