Estimated Reading Time: 3 minutesWe’ve been living aboard Dreams of Infinity for a couple of weeks now and she already feels like home. The freezing cold temperatures are becoming a distant memory and we even had to dig out our sunglasses one day this week. We are so glad we gave ourselves this time in La Rochelle. In retrospect it…
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The handover
Estimated Reading Time: 3 minutesThe day we’ve been dreaming of for years arrived and there were tears of joy. The only problem being that it was so cold, my tears almost froze as they fell. Our boat handover coincided with a particularly brutal cold snap that gripped La Rochelle for a week which meant rather than celebrating with champagne in…
A dream coming true
Estimated Reading Time: 2 minutesAfter more than a year of false starts in our quest to buy a Fountaine Pajot Astrea 42 sailing catamaran the opportunity to buy a new boat presented itself at the end of September. The original buyer ordered the boat 2 years ago and worked with the broker through the painstaking and time consuming process…
Blogging – finally jumping in (splash!)
Estimated Reading Time: < 1 minuteDuring the summer of 2016 I crewed on a 40ft sailboat in the Pacific Cup which is a 2,070 mile Pacific Ocean crossing from San Francisco to Hawaii. I’m not sure why Greg and Susan were so keen to have me aboard; it certainly wasn’t for my limited sailing skills. I suspect it was for…
Captain’s hour
Estimated Reading Time: < 1 minuteBecause of the way the watch schedule works, you relieve or are relieved by the same people on every watch so it’s actually very easy for 5 people to be together on a 40ft yacht for a couple of weeks and only see other crew members in passing, like ships that pass in the night…
And we’re off to the Derby
Estimated Reading Time: < 1 minuteWe’ve been galloping along and making such good progress it was looking like we’d get to Kanehoe earlier than expected. But then Derby showed up on the scene and it looks like he may have the upper hand on our plans. A few days ago Derby was rated as a hurricane, the good news is…
Derby don’t you dare!
Estimated Reading Time: 2 minutesThe sun finally came out today and we were able to do our watches in shorts and tees rather than our foulies. Squalls come through with some regularity and give us a shower but it is not unpleasant. Talking of showers, in order to conserve our precious water on board, we wash down with a…
Fish envy no more
Estimated Reading Time: 3 minutesDespite Mike putting a line out for days, we’d not yet hooked a fish and were growing unceasingly envious during radio check-in as many of the other boats told tales of their catches, some implying that they didn’t even need a line and that the fish we’re launching themselves onto the decks, sacrificing themselves for…
Please stop this incessant movement!
Estimated Reading Time: 2 minutesThe perpetual movement is starting to take its toll. Everyone’s in good spirits but the sheer effort it takes to do the most basic things is simply exhausting and being constantly thrown around the boat has us all black and blue. Yesterday we passed the half way point to Hawaii (yay!) and celebrated with rum…
Friday night foredeck party
Estimated Reading Time: 2 minutesMidnight Friday night and just about to come off of a 4 hour watch when the winds really started to build and the sails were becoming overpowered. I stayed up to help Mike and Greg make some sail adjustments so that we could sail smoothly through the night. Best laid plans and all that… We…