For any readers who woke up today wondering what the weather was like in Bermuda, I can tell you it is just lovely.

There’s about eighty or ninety boats in the anchorage, all taking a break before heading for Europe, UK or USA. Interestingly the most represented marque is Outremer which must be good for our care home funding plans.

It was a slowish ride up here but on one day, surf was up and we skooshed along topping out at 15.1 knots. Fast but not entirely conducive to sound sleep. Maybe we should have put in that reef.

As luck would have it we arrived in the dark at midnight but fortunately, clever clogs had laid a track on the plotter when we left Bermuda back in November so we just retraced our steps following the breadcrumbs, found a spot amongst the myriad of masthead lights, plonked down the anchor and collapsed into bed for about twelve hours.

This ocean passage-making lark isn’t as easy as it used to be!