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Part 3: our final leg – by Noni & Tim

 4 Jan 2019 – Port Elisabeth, Bequia to Marigot Bay, St Lucia Hope you don’t read this Chris Warrell, if you are reading, please stop now – we hit the high seas and you might chunder! We left Bequia at 3am, so much of the hard core sailing (63 nautical […]

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Celebrities and lobster pizza – by Tim & Noni

Picture this: New Year’s Eve; a balmy tropical night; barefoot at Vanessa’s beach restaurant; rum punch flowing; and fresh red snapper over the charcoals! Divine…just the way to welcome the new year. New year’s day spent soaking up the sun at Chatham Bay, one of the Windward Islands’ most idyllic […]

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New Year’s Ressie – by Tim and Noni

About 6 months ago Captain Ken floated the idea of us joining him and Janice sailing Ressie from Grenada to St Lucia. We looked at each for a nanosecond and both screamed ‘yes’, what an invitation and no way would we miss this opportunity. 27 December 2018 We arrived at […]

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Ciao, Amigos

The party’s over!  What?  Why? How?  It turns out that finishing a World ARC rally is as surreal as the rest of trip.  That feeling: ‘it-can’t-possibly-be-true’ has morphed into ‘it-can’t-possibly-be-over’. RESTING AT LAST – THE FLEET IN ST LUCIA     THE LAST HARRAH Then again, if we have to […]

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The Far Side of the World

SOMETIME IN LATE 2010 <phone call> Capt K:  Hi darling!  How are you? Cup:  Fine, fine, but where are you? Capt K: Grenada! Cup: Spain? Why? Capt. K: Not exactly. The Caribbean, honey. Dreadlocks, rum punch and that wonderful weed.  Cup:   You didn’t! Capt K: (all innocence) What, my […]

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