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Half way in Tahiti

Two days from Anse Amyot and we would be in Tahiti, pretty much half way across the Pacific.  I remember thinking back to sailing in the UK when a two […]

Posted on September 7, 2017September 7, 2017 by Jack
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Goodbye Western Hemisphere

I write this at 4am in the morning, soon to be 3am tomorrow morning.  I think.  I am on night watch and we are just about to enter the Eastern […]

Posted on September 4, 2017August 29, 2017 by Jack
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Sharks and boules

Formerly named “Bay of Dicks” after its imposing phallic rock formations, missionaries apparently took offence and renamed the “Baie de Verges” to “Baie de Vierges” – the Bay of Virgins.   […]

Posted on August 29, 2017August 29, 2017 by Jack
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Time to stop and stare

“What is this world if, full of care, we have no time to stop and stare”?  My sister tells me that this poem by William Henry Davies was a favourite […]

Posted on August 16, 2017 by Jack
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Saint Helena

My good friend Toby has told me I have become a little too brief and less of a story teller in these blogs. I thought I was saving you time. […]

Posted on May 29, 2017May 29, 2017 by Jack
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40 days and 40 nights

…and around lent too. How biblical. I don’t think I have ever given up so much for lent, which seems an apt theme to describe this journey of around 7,000km […]

Posted on May 21, 2017May 21, 2017 by Jack
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inReach message from GEOFF WARD

Just testing posting to the blog from the onboard satellite communicator. Only 160 characters! You can follow the boat on this URL View the location or send a reply to […]

Posted on March 22, 2017March 22, 2017 by Jack
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Volcanoes melt me down

Crossing into Costa Rica, I had turned up during a big Rodeo in Liberia.  The bull was joined by a couple hundred spectators actually in the ring, tormenting him, while […]

Posted on March 7, 2017March 7, 2017 by Jack
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I don’t know why and I don’t know what for

At many times I have wondered why I am squandering a redundancy pay-out that could have set me up a new business, or given me quite a few relaxed months […]

Posted on March 6, 2017March 6, 2017 by Jack
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Short detour to Guatemala

I should have planned Mexico to Guatemala better. A 5 hour bus to Chetumal ended with a taxi driver persuading me to let him take me to the Belize border, […]

Posted on March 5, 2017March 5, 2017 by Jack
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