We are in Richards Bay, South Africa and will be coming home to Bristol from December 2nd to 28th… so rather a lot of blog catching-up to do! Here at last is the one from our time in Mayotte…. Friday 7th to Tuesday 25th October 2022 Up until Covid the

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

Friday 30th September to Friday 7th October 2022 I was sad to leave the beautiful Seychelles but also keen to push on as we plan to complete the circumnavigation and be home in Bristol around June of next year. The next destination is Cape Town with the first leg being

“We have only 87,000 people altogether, and we are 115 islands. We have 15 types of mangoes, 17 types of banana and four types of coconut. We have no monkey, no snake, no tiger. Here, you are in paradise.” What they also have in the Seychelles are giant tortoises, coco

I have been back in the Seychelles for over a week now after just over two months at home in Bristol. Hugh had arrived two weeks earlier than me, getting the engine etc sorted, and Vega was beautifully clean and tidy when I arrived – that didn’t last long!  Ahead of

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

Sunday 17th April to Sunday 1st May 2022 The cruising south of Malé is, by reputation, more difficult than the northern Maldives. Anchorages are reportedly deeper with longer distances between the atolls and with fewer sheltered places to stop. As the season is getting on the winds are changing from

We are back in Bristol now. Despite it being June and summertime it’s cold, only 11 to 18 degrees C, and we are feeling chilly in our summer clothes brought from the Seychelles. But its really great to be back, to catch up with family and friends and Hugh’s four

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.

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