ANNE MARIE

Day 9 saw the wind rise again by midday, so turned the motor off and started sailing with 1 reef in the main, Dave and the staysail. I...

The forecast was quite clear that if we did not head north straight away, we would end up motoring for over a week in calms, so as we...

I am sure we will get there in the end, but the last couple of days have been really tough. We have been sailing well out of Antigua,...

We finished last in 4 out of five races, the fifth we were disqualified for a stupid start line infringement. But the bare results of the...

The well worn faded covers of the seats of the old Fokker 50 needed a good clean. Many sweaty heads had rested on them whilst flying high...

Sailing down the Baja coast was a pleasure. Good wind, well behind us, we managed to set the new balloon jib, 'Dave' of several days out...

I am now sitting in the marina office at Ensenada Marina, waiting to be able to go and get the paperwork I need to clear the boat and...

We had a great sail heading due south with a north westerly breeze the first afternoon out of San Francisco. This continued until the...

In the morning I called customs, and spoke with a nice guy, who told us to proceed to the Jack London marina at Oakland, where they would...

Although the front had passed and the wind had shifted to the West, it was not to last long. The log shows that the barometer, which had...