So Close, Yet So Far...
Day 46… The wind died and to be honest it was a relief. It was quite pleasant leisurely moving through the water with our only remaining...
5645 Miles Down...
Well, it's a week since we left my favourite island, Cocos otherwise known as the Keeling Islands. Not much to report. The weather has...
Remembering our arrival at Cocos Dream Island
This was the view of Cocos Island when we arrived and when we departed - all you could see was the vast amount of Palm trees from about 5...
Time to revise tidal calculations
As the photo shows, it's not all been fabulous sun and peaceful skies, and today was one of those days that the weather decided to give...
How to be the perfect shipmate (or How not to be fed to the sharks)
NEWSFLASH: I FINALLY SAW SHARKS!!!! Right, back to business. There are a few things to you have to learn when you do boat deliveries for...
We've landed!
We are on dry land and it looks like this!! Coco's Island, a 10 respite before the final 2,500NM to the Seychelles where we finally set...
4,378NM done and I want to sea land
Yes, the spelling error is deliberate - if you had spent as much time as we have looking at blue wet stuff, you'd spell it like that too....
Byebye internet
No, not because we've been eaten or stung, but because we have 4,600NM to go and Darwin is a) ridiculously hot and b) the sea is too...
Boats, birds and broken eggs
2,683 NM of big blue sea and we've landed in Darwin. While generally sailing is all rainbows, sunshine and unicorns (Editor - that was a...
Fishfingers for EVERYONE
1370 nautical miles down, another 1300 nautical miles to go… to Darwin! With apologies to Mr Bon Jovi... ‘Ohhh we’re half way there,...
