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Hope you enjoy these few shots.

As we motor past Barbados, with less than 40m to go and looking like an arrival at lunch on day 21, I have spent the day reflecting on the journey so far. Sailing any ocean demands a healthy respect and none more so than the Atlantic Ocean. The Atlantic’s affectionate name of “The Pond”, although…

We cracked. Grog opened to compensate for our missed arrival. If it had not been for the very odd weather pattern we would be in St Lucia now. Instead as I write we still have 200 m to motor! Yesterday was perhaps the most frustrating of our sailing days. Despite the prophecy of storm force…

As you can imagine, weather is pretty front and centre in our daily thinking (then food!). We have to take as many sources as we can, including visual where we are. At the moment (GMT+12 7/12) we are experiencing moderately cloudy skies, 3.2 knots of wind from the S and so we are now motor…

So the motoring continues, our range anxiety increases but our distance to the way point decreases. We are becoming increasingly concerned that the wind hole may well persist, and so we throttled back to 1000 revs reducing our speed to 3.2 kn but increasing our range. We transferred the diesel from our jerrycans to the…

We have had not a drop of wind for 12 hours. Early yesterday, we had about 7 to 10 kn of wind and we flew the BWR. It converted to approximately 4 kn of sailing, in roughly the right direction. Unfortunately, there was insufficient wind to keep the sails full, and they would regularly collapse,…

More fish than we wanted! So yesterday we caught a horse Jack tuna and a big Mahi Mahi.  Thinking kedgeree for the Mahi, but need advice on Tuna dishes, other than pasta bake! Any thoughts gratefully received. We’ve put the reels away for a while! We kept our white sails out as squall activity increased.…

And onto the home straight. As you can see, we had a great time crossing the halfway mark. First beers of the trip! No sooner had we opened our beers, than the shackle on the outhaul, pulling the mainsail along the boom snapped. All hands, and we had to bring the head sail in swinging…

We are approaching the midway point. Hard to believe. I used to think that mid way was the point beyond which it was just not sensible to think about going back to the departure point, but should proceed forwards to the Caribbean. But the effects of the wind and the currents make that decision one…