by admin | Feb 19, 2025 | ARC 2024, Sailing
Here is where a 24 day adventure ends. The lights of St Lucia and its neighbour, Martinique glisten in the distance in the early hours of the morning. Our celebrations are composed, accompanied by the small welcoming party on the dock armed with a welcoming hamper, a...
by admin | Feb 19, 2025 | ARC 2024, Sailing
Squalls are common in an Atlantic crossing. We had been lucky for a while, only passing under electric storms accompanied by light rain that strangely brought no wind. It had been heard of other boats ahead of us were passing through all sorts; wind holes and strong...
by admin | Feb 19, 2025 | ARC 2024, Sailing
I’ve mentioned orcas a few times in some of my previous blogs whilst sailing in the sighting hotpots like the Portuguese coast and the straights. For this voyage, I thought, as you probably would, there would be no need to worry about the orcas. So imagine my surprise...
by admin | Feb 19, 2025 | ARC 2024, Sailing
We’ve had a little adventure within the adventure since my last entry. About 200 miles from the coast of Mauritania, our starter motor caught fire! Like other boats, we had been using the engine to only charge the batteries and not for propulsion as it states in the...
by admin | Feb 19, 2025 | ARC 2024, Sailing
3 days later and going strong. There are still a couple of days left until I’ve matched my longest non-stop passage, and from then on, I’ll be living a new challenge. Adopting to a new watch system and living on a 12-metre yacht with 8 other people is in itself a...
by admin | Feb 19, 2025 | ARC 2024, Sailing
2 days into the race and Escapado and her crew are still in Las Palmas making repairs. I definitely dodged a bullet with that one. After leaving her in St Tropez, she sailed to Malta and competed in the Middle Sea Race before making her way back to Gibraltar and...
