Up at 6am, underway by 7am – M having fixed a blockage in one of the outboard motors that was stopping it cycling water. He had been right (WHAT THE?!) – the conditions were excellent. We pointed at 100 degrees – Deal Island – skirting around Hogarth Island. The Smalls had benefitted from the baptism […]
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From Refuge Cove to…where?
Up early – we were over on to the beach before 9am – M was keen to add our boat-name to those in the Refuge Cove walls of fame 😉 The Smalls and I then stayed on the beach while he hiked the trail we had already done – in order to get some exercise, […]
Sleet. And a fish and chip dinner.
Sleet during the night. Actual sleet. I am so grateful for the woollen blankets that Jess washed and dried for me ? Snugged up under one of them, I was warm as a bug. I thought briefly and unsympathetically of all the motorboating people over in their camp, shivering wetly, and slept in until eight […]
Kersop’s Peak – Quest for mobile coverage
Yesterday we had seen five souped up motorboats pull up – they appeared to be filming each other as they whizzed around the cove. I have no objection to non-wind powered vessels – until they begin doing laps around your catamaran at an illegally high speed, anchor 20 feet away and then fly a drone […]
Refuge Cove: Reflections
The downside of having offspring is that, when you’ve sailed for 18 hours and felt f!$king dire for most of them, they awake at the same time as usual – meaning that you get approximately four hours sleep. Joy. It’s lucky the surroundings were sublime. It’s easier to feel hungover when it’s 20 degrees and […]