It has been another water-focused year, but less time on Kalessin in 2009 and more on other people's boats. Sam (pictured mid-A...
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Moonstruck reached St Lucia shortly after midnight local time on Thursday 10 December, with an elapsed crossing time of 17d 14h 49m 32s. The...
Here's Sam's last email from out in the Atlantic, dated Tuesday 8 December: Had an urgent invitation to a party on the foredeck in...
From Sam: We have been having some problems with connections for email transmission so you may have had a bit of a gap. Anyway, progress i...
We received two emails from Sam at 2120 today. Obviously they go into an SSB stasis somewhere: Just sea (one bird) no fish (although we do...
This update from Sam arrived at 1.37am today, but I think may have been stuck in the ether for a while. As of noon today they had about 1000...
Latest update from Sam: The big lead boats (Wallys etc) are about 850 miles off the finish and all pretty close. A record crossing is poss...
Latest update from Sam in mid-Atlantic: Running wing on wing with the Genoa poled out, big swells rolling like a good 'un. Can't ...
As of yesterday Moonstruck had covered 1100 miles and had 1600 to go. They are suffering a bit of wear and tear - blew their spinnaker out a...
Sam just called to say Moonstruck is about to leave the pontoon. He says it's mayhem, bow-thruster city, even through there is a stagge...
At noon tomorrow Moonstruck will head across the start line off Gran Canaria and out into the Atlantic, on her way to St Lucia, with 219 ot...
Well, here Ben and I are, at home on this rather pleasant September day and thinking about going kayaking on Rockland Broad. Meanwhile Guy i...
So... 111.3 miles in 21 hours, about eight or nine of them sailing properly. Flat seas, light winds and a blooming Dutch boat in our berth w...
Last week Sam's cousin Helen complained of a headache and went to hospital. She was diagnosed with a brain tumour and died over the week...
OK, this is a bit weird. We're moored up on a canal in central Amsterdam, rafted three deep, and waiting for the night convoy to start s...
Our plan is to head down to the Delta on the standing mast route. This includes something which Sam has always wanted to do, going through A...
We finally left Medemblik this morning with a forecast of W4-5, decreasing to SW3-4 this evening. The forecast was just about accurate and a...
We left Amsterdam on Monday after several days of waiting for a forecast which didn't have a force 7 in it. Winds are generally a force ...
I can't believe these depressions keep coming over. Isn't there supposed to be a gap between them? This feels like the umpteenth day...
Just a quick one as this connection is a bit erratic, although free. We arrived with perfect timing at the Sixhaven in Amsterdam yesterday a...
Well, we made it to Ijmuiden with almost no problems apart from a nasty, choppy sea with short, steep waves for the first half of the journe...
Between the Scandinavian depression heading off to the east, and the depression forming somewhere off Ireland, Saturday might be quite a nic...
Possibly we could have gone today. On this side of the North Sea there is a window of opportunity after Monday's depression passes to th...
I thought I was a bit of a wimp avoiding the forecast for today of SW4-5 occasionally 6 - I'm sure we'd have been fine. If that'...
Before we head off to the Netherlands we thought it would be a good idea to try a shorter cruise – just to check that everything on the boat...
I finished my contract with Aviva UK on Friday 26 June - and I don't start the next one with Aviva Europe until 10 August. So that gives...
I'm a bit shocked to see that it's five months since I last posted to the blog. Admittedly, we haven't yet been sailing this yea...
After weeks of agonising over colours, patterns, textures, fabrics, prices and more we have finally commissioned Jeckells * to replace all t...
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