Category Archives: At Sea

Helen: Day 20

Two years ago I was packing the content of our house into boxes. We’d sold our house. We’d both given in our resignation at work. Our youngest son Sam was about to turn eighteen. We were about to start our … Continue reading

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Steve: Day 20

161nm to go. Literally within a minute or two after writing yesterday’s blog the winds picked up and stayed there. Not significantly but enough to start moving the boat between 5 & 6 knots. Suddenly we were looking at solid … Continue reading

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John: Day 20

Well we’re 2 days from landfall unless something amazing happens. Me and Steve swapped the anchor chain around from end to end, the really rusty end is now attached to the boat and the not so rusty end to the … Continue reading

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John: Day 20

Well we’re 2 days from landfall unless something amazing happens. Me and Steve swapped the anchor chain around from end to end, the really rusty end is now attached to the boat and the not so rusty end to the … Continue reading

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Helen: Day 19

Another day of pleasant sedate sailing. Steve set up the ETA countdown on our display. In the afternoon our ETA was around 77 hours. That’s only three more days. We could make it before sunset of May 3rd. At the … Continue reading

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