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…
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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…
