We made it to Grenada! We've now sailed 7,100 miles since we left Southampton in May and we've made it to the Caribbean. We got to Grenada after 13 days at sea, arriving at 08.40 Grenada time on Th ...
Not far now!
Sorry it's been a few days since the last update, rather rolly conditions don't make staring at a screen the top priority! After a slow first week, some much more consistent breeze arrived on the 28th ...
Livin' on a Prayer
Ooooh we’re half way there! Today we crossed the half way point, we now have under 1,080 miles to go. For lunch we had crepes with cheese, bacon and tomato and for pudding we had crepes wit ...
Day 5 Blog
We have now been at sea for just over four days, this is day 5 of our trip. We hopefully have about 9 days left. We are 1,524 miles from the finish. We have seen two pods of dolphin, lots and lots o ...
On the way to Grenada!
We have just finished our first day of the Atlantic crossing. The start in Mindelo was quite exciting with lots of boats crossing the line at the same time, some with spinnakers up. We could see lots ...
Cape Verde
Apologies for the lack of blogs from at sea. What with watches, cooking, boat maintenance, trying to get enough sleep, looking after the boys during the day, doing a bit of home school, downloading an ...
First report from the Atlantic!
On Sunday, everybody left the marina to go to the start. It was really exciting because we knew that now we had to do this! There was loud music and lots of people waving us of with flags. The Multi ...
Gran Canaria week 3 and 4
We're writing this from sea but we thought we should catch up on our time in Gran Canaria before we write about being at sea. The last couple of weeks were busier than the first as Mummy and Daddy had ...
Off we go!
This SHOULD be two blogs by Archie and Fergus about weeks 3 and 4 in Gran Canaria, but they haven't written anything yet - we've all been rather busy! We'll try and get an update written over the next ...
Gran Canaria Week 2
This week we have had visits from the UK - Mummy's friend Hilary and Mimi, our Granny. On Sunday evening we picked up Hilary from the airport and I (Fergus) fell and grazed myself because I was runnin ...