planning out, packing up and paying off to the big blue...

I had a rather stupid idea in September 2010 that we could buy a boat and sail round the world. Stupid because I had never sailed before and we aren't filthy rich. Somehow the crazy idea got talked about more and more, slowly becoming an actual plan.

Since then I've gone from incompetent crew to a Coastal Skipper with my Yachtmaster theory. I know my bimini from my binnacle, my yawl from my ketch, my CTS from my GPS. We are not at all prepared for this adventure yet but we are getting there, putting the hours in researching and working out all the logistics of leaving London, moving onto our yacht and eventually launching out into the water.

So we moved onto the boat and sailed from Mylor to Gibraltar, cruising the Portugese and Spanish coasts. From here we sailed to Morocco and then the Canaries. We crossed the Atlantic, taking 20 days and 6 hours from Gran Canaria to St Lucia. We're now exploring the Western Caribbean, sailing the coast of Central America.

And yes it's quite crazy and yes we are quite terrified.

Mind you, I can't think of a better way to be spending my days right now.