It's was a long trip here starting clear back in Richards Bay, South Africa. We left there just before Christmas, heading for Durban. After about five days there, we left Christmas day, taking advantage of the first weather window in weeks. We needed to get past the Cape of Good Hope and that in itself was a long trip. We covered the 1,000 miles plus and we're in Simons Town about NewYears day. By January 18, another weather window opened long enough for us to travel from Simons Town, around the Cape and past Cape Town to Saldanha Bay where we spent a few more days fixing thing. That's one thing about cruising, you are always fixing things. We left Saldanha on January 23 and got to Luederitz, Namibia the next Wednesday (the 27th). After a week there, we took off again for Walvis Bay, Namibia getting there on February 5th. We had a great time there(including my birthday) getting restocked and refueled as diesel in St Helena was extremely expensive(about $8.00 a gal lon). We pressed on having now covered 630 miles. Actually, it was 855 as the chart plotter had a software meltdown and blipped out 225 miles we gone. We left Walvis Bay on Friday, February 12th for the trip to St Helena, getting there on Tuesday, February 23 having now covered 2250 miles. The software in the chart plotter had burped again loosing another 115 miles. Five days later, we left St Helena for somewhere in the Caribbean. We really had no set place to stop at this point. We had reservations in Trinidad starting in mid June but that gave us about 60 days free. Thirty days later, we pulled into Trinidad having now covered 5997 miles since leaving Simons Town. We tore our mainsail in two places and stopped mid cruise to fix them. The DuoGen snapped a connector and the gooseneck on the boom shifted forward. Add in the broken main sail halyard and that was about it for gear failures. In total, it was 71 days, with time off for Saldanha, Luederitz, Walvis Bay and St Helena. The 30 day trip from St Helena was the hardest and longest we have ever done. The first part got downright boring with the wind off the stern quarter for days on end. Then when we finally changed course along the north side of Brazil, we had steady winds and swells all from of the Northeast. It wouldn't have been so bad with the 25 knot winds but the 6-8 foot beam seas rolling us from side to side and from vertical to a 35 degree slant that made it hard. The cats were sliding around inside and we couldn't walk without holding on to something. I had more black and blue marks than ever before. Motrin was one of my best friends during the trip. A bright spot was definitely the meals Tracy made during the trip. She did herself proud with her creativity. No stores out here to run to if your missing something. We arrived in Trinidad on March 29 a bit the worse for wear. We had to get our "land legs " back once we got to shore and for me, that took a few days. It was so bad sometimes, I had to just stop, spread my legs a bit and wait a few seconds till I stabilized. During the last week, we've fixed just about everything that had caused us problems and did some preventative jobs to boot. Filled the water and fuel tanks and scrubbed Zephyr down getting off the last of the soot from the fires in Simons Town and I even went up the mast and replaced the mainsail halyard with Tracy grabbing the line inside the mast. We've left Crews Inn Marina and are sitting in a small Bay enjoying the quiet and the stillness of the cove. Boats passing by the marina made everyone rock back and forth at all hours of the day and night. It was just about 6,000 miles from Simons Town and over 7,000 from Richards Bay. Believe me, that's a long trip.