Restless - reflections and signing out
Wow, being home is quite surreal. We are left reflecting on our epic adventure and cherishing the memories of a great trip. It was amazing, and it is impossible to pick out one single element as "best", every bit of it was a highlight in its own way....
woo hoo, we did it
Hooray, we made it. Restless and both crew are home in Oban arriving about 9 a.m. this morning. What a journey. We'll post a full summary to bring things to a close, might even get Captain Timmy to share all those photographs he took. As ever it was...
Land Ho...Howth
Woo hoo, we made landfall. Oh happy, happy day. As many of you noticed we made it to Howth marina, just north of Dublin this morning. We arrived before marina staff were around so helped ourselves to a prime spot on the hammer head where we remain. We...
8 June Satellite phone update
Our position is 44 49.51:14.17.60 as at today 11.00 hours, and we continue to head east. We will pass 14 degrees west this afternoon and then continue ENE for around 24 hours. Those of you who follow the weather might have been concerned about that big system...
Tuesday 7 June .Sat phone update
Our position is 45 10.59N and 16 54.78W. Since my slightly rushed last update we have made good progress but not without incidents. On Sunday we had more fun sailing. One big headsail poled out. We were not directly downwind so the second headsail wasn’t...
Sunday 5 June - Sat phone update
Our position is 43 04.69N 21 20.79W
Happy jubilee weekend. All well here, the last two days have been good in terms of mileage, 122nm and 116 nm respectively. Yesterday was pretty foul as forecast. Force 6 but super wet and grey with a big lumpy sea....
Happy jubilee weekend. All well here, the last two days have been good in terms of mileage, 122nm and 116 nm respectively. Yesterday was pretty foul as forecast. Force 6 but super wet and grey with a big lumpy sea....