March 2020 In our last blog we were preparing to leave Martinique, and head further north up the island chain. We left St Pierre, and made the long sail 80 miles north to Iles des Saintes, where we dropped anchor in the beautiful Terre de Haut. This small group of islands are part of the …
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St Vincent – Martinique
6th February 2020 We’ve packed in a lot since our last post, and we’re well into the New Year. Time has been going so quickly, and now it feels like it’s sped up even more, as 2020 starts flying by. It’s hard to believe we left Ireland 7 months ago already. After we left St …
Barbados – The Grenadines – St Vincent
8th January 2020 – Barbados – The Grenadines – St Vincent It took a day or two to recover from the crossing, and there was no better place for our recovery than Barbados. After our arrival in Port St Charles, we spent a morning turning the boat from an ocean going vessel back into something …
Atlantic Crossing
Atlantic Crossing Days 1 – 7 With our sub 24 hour pit stop in Cape Verde over, we set off in absolutely perfect conditions for our trip west. As we slipped out of Mindello between the Islands of Sao Vincente and and Santo Anteo, we had 25 knots from astern, and lovely rolling waves to …
Thursday 21st November – Canaries to Cape Verdes Islands
Thursday 21st November – Canaries to Cape Verdes Islands We set off from Tenerife bound for Cape Verdes bright and early on Saturday morning. Full of enthusiasm (and breakfast), we cast off around 8:30am into a light northerly breeze. We’d been expecting a light patch until we get clear of the island and it’s enormous …
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Friday 15th November – Cruising the Canary Islands
After our Lagos – Lanzarote crossing, we arrived into a sheltered little anchorage at La Graciosa – a small island just north of Lanzarote’s mainland. We didn’t stay long – the lure of a marina with fresh food, hot showers where the water didn’t run out and dry land was just too strong, so we …
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13th October 2019: Lisbon – Sines – Lagos – Canaries
13th October 2019: Lisbon – Sines – Lagos – Canaries After we left Éalú in Lisbon, we flew to the UK to visit family, and attend a wedding – thanks for having us Holly and Rob! We then flew to La Zenia, Spain, to see more family, before a spin up to Barcelona for some …
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13th September – Leg 2: La Coruna to Lisbon
Since our last post, we seem to have crammed quite a lot in! After we had recovered in La Coruna from our Biscay crossing, we headed south – our first passage was a long-ish 80 miles down to Muros. We received a very warm welcome from Pedro in the marina, and we spent a couple …
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16th August – Leg 1: Schull – La Coruna
After a very enjoyable week racing and socializing at the (in)famous Calves Week Regatta in Schull, Neilo met us on Sunday evening, and we were all set for an early morning departure to La Coruna. We left at 6am in a cool North Westerly breeze, which saw us shooting out past the Fastnet Rock in …
10th August – setting off, Calves Week, and final prep…..
We didn’t quite have the start we’d planned to our trip, and due to a family situation, I spent the first week of our planned trip at home with my family, while Marty did all the final jobs, and got the boat ready to leave. I flew back to Dublin on the evening of 29th …
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