Butterfly - Monday Day 15

Mark: Sunday was one of those days where the wind blew old boots, the rain was truly tropical and horizontal and any sunshine was missing from the sky, could have been in the Solent! Somehow Rob managed to cook roast lamb with Roast spuds, amazing!! but then it was Sunday. Crib with Mike was suspended due to the risk of getting the cards wet. Kenny, Simon and Lee have been taking lessons in how to start a Yanmar engine and all passed the test at last! Hope to be in St. Lucia soon. Love to all Mark   Mike: 200 miles to go, the wind has dropped and the sun is back out, this is more like what we expected from the Caribbean. The whole trip has been made with little assistance from the engine, now with hardly any wind we have been using the engine, only problem, that is was not working,. read more...

Butterfly - 510 miles to go... ;)

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Butterfly - Day 11

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Butterfly - Day 9

Mark; Past half way and nearly 2/3rds with only just over 1000 miles to go. All going well, managed to achieve over 175 miles yesterday. Last night was exciting with big squalls coming over with heavy rain, when I struggled out of my bunk to go on watch at 3.00am, Kenny and Lee were soaking but very excited , as Butterfly was flying along at 12knots! Those below decks find sleep quite difficult because of the noise and motion.Mike is making a lunch at the moment which will be the second to last salad as fresh supplies are running low, we then start to have fry ups!. Simon came below this morning with the wheel in his hands, saying it had fallen off and couldn’t get it back on,  had me going for a minute! Hope you all okay at home, thinking of you.   Mike: Lee caught. read more...

Butterfly - Day 8

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