Maintenance in exotic locations The first job we had to do once we were in the marina was to clean the decks. This couldn’t be done while we were on…
Antigua
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Welcome to our very first sailing video! We arrived into Antigua after a fairly straightforward, if boring, flight from Gatwick. Disembarking into the hot, tropical climate was quite a shock…
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Haul Out Day Is Finally Upon Us We woke up after our final night sleeping to the comforting sound of water slapping against the hull, and by 9am were dropping…
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Preparing for Hauling Out With less than a week until we haul out, the countdown is on to get Ruby Rose ready for the next 7 months (7 months!?) on the…
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What exactly do we do? My recent posts haven’t really focussed on what life onboard has been like recently, so today I’ll give you a little snippet of what the…
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Antigua classics, and much more…. Okay, so you know how in my last post I said how happy we are in the marina and how we’re just going to stay…
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Plans Are Written In The Sand At Low Tide We have now been in Jolly Harbour for a month, which explains why I’ve been pretty slack with the blog thing…
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Family Time in Antigua Nick’s parents have just left us in Jolly harbour after another enjoyable holiday together- this is becoming quite a regular event, which Nick and I are…
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Surviving the Social Scene Our beloved cruising guide says of Antigua that “It can be harder to survive the English Harbour social scene than the offshore reefs,” which I read a…
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This Is Getting Tedious! We really thought that sailing in the Caribbean would be easy. But we’ve had more upwind sailing over the past few months than we ever had…