Welcome to POV 2, a blog about our upcoming adventure to cross the Atlantic.

The story actually begins in January when Pam and I are spending the month at my brother Tim's place in Palm Springs. I'm bored and I do what I often do in such situations, I start reading sailing magazines and websites. Since Pam and I began sailing in 2002 with once a year bare boat charters in exotic but always warm locations, I've also dreamed of doing more sailing. And what better way to do that than to own your own boat, thus the February purchase of POV 2, a Lagoon 42 catamaran, with Pam's full support. (You'll have to ask her why?)

It's a beautiful boat with a master suite and head in one hull and two cabins and two heads in the other hull. I've posted a stock picture of the boat above.

Forward to the present and after many months of planning, I will be departing for La Rochelle, France in just over two weeks to pick up POV 2 and get her ready for two journeys. The first, from La Rochelle to the Canary Islands, and the second in the company of over 200 other boats in the Atlantic Rally for Cruisers, from the Canary Islands in late November to the Caribbean for arrival in mid December.

For this trip I've recruited two wonderful friends who also live in Sonoma County and a long time friend of one of them. The four of us will all do the journey together from the Canary Islands and two of them will join me for the first leg departing from La Rochelle.

This blog will document this journey. Once we are out of range of cell towers, the posts will become a bit more rudimentary as we will be using satellite communications. Hopefully, some images will get through but they may not. In any case, you will be able to follow our crossing on a map as we make our way across 4000 nautical miles.