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Leaving Mayotte

Monday 24th October 2022 Having spent over two weeks in Mayotte a suitable weather window has appeared and we feel as ready now as we’ll ever be to tackle the passage down the notorious Mozambique Channel to Richards Bay in South Africa. The hope is to cover the 1300 miles

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Chagos – Beauty and Betrayal

We’ve been home in Bristol for the last seven weeks and have been catching up with family and friends. We have a new grandson, Charlie, my son Alex and his partner Sarah’s baby, born on June 17th. We’ve loved spending time with our other grandchildren Isla, Rohan, Bertie and Henry

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The Seychelles

We are in the Eden Marina in the Seychelles after a particularly unpleasant 12 day passage from Chagos where we had spent a wonderful week. But more of that another time. I’ve got a lot of catching up on the blog which will hopefully happen over the next few weeks.

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Leaving the Maldives

Sunday 1st May 2022 After two months in the Maldives we’re leaving this morning for the 300 mile passage south to the Chagos Archipelago (British Indian Ocean Territories) where we’ll spend one or two weeks in glorious isolation before a further 1000 miles west to the The Seychelles. We’ve provisioned

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