Why Not - Why Not (Richard Anthony )

We all had a very good night last night with strong winds giving us a maxspeed of 11.6 and a daily coverage of a whopping 174 miles   Hence we are due to arrive in Rodney bay a little earlier than expectedbetween 8am and 10 pm giving us a crossing of 18 days .   Keith . read more...

Why Not - Why Not Monday ( Richard Anthony )

In the last 24 hrs we have had many squalls with winds and rain up to 38knots , during the night these were the hardest to deal with especially as wehad no moon, hence darkness, but our skipper got us through it .   Charlie one crew member decided to read to all of us a chapter from 50Shades of Grey   Only 580 miles to go and most of the crew are looking for a large beer,except Catlin is looking for a good scrub.   Keith and Ray cooked a fine meal last night of jacket potato and baked beans .   Good Sailing  Keith  . read more...

Why Not - Saturday

Saturday   Well an interesting couple of days we have had  , Firstly breaking ourdaily mileage from 161 to 173 which we were very pleased with.   Then onto our flying fish record of 8 in one night joining us, and oursudden desire to dance like a scots man when one landed in our crew members lapat 3am.   A quiz day on sailing was organised yesterday and guess what our 2 crewnamed dumb and dumber (Paul and Keith) won  !!!   Tonight we are eating our catch of the day a 15 ib Dorado which we aregoing to curry , thanks to our skipper  ( Richard )   Weather and winds are fantastic and today we have the bimany down andplenty of sun tanning today .   ETA from us Friday lunch time , just in time for a beer !!!   Paul and. read more...

Why Not - Why Not (Richard Anthony)

Afternoon Folks!   We’re glad to report that we’ve grafted very hard over the last 2 days, andhave just managed our personal best of 171 miles in 24 hours – an average of 7.1knots. Not bad considering we’ve only been on the white sails for the last 3days. Previous days were 161 and 163 miles, so we’re really going for it.  The crew also enjoyed a delightfully chilled bottle of Moet a couple daysago, to celebrate crossing the half way line. The next sip of champers will beupon our arrival in St Lucia, which is our main motivation for getting there asquick as possible!   In the night we had 3 flying fish attacks which resulted in Keith dancingaround like a fairy to get them back in the sea. This morning we also managedour 2nd largest catch yet – 19 lb. mahi mahi which is. read more...

Why Not - Wed 2nd Dec

Another peaceful day aboard Why Not caught more fish but our freezer is Sofull of them we gave this one back enjoying the sun but whishing for fairwinds.These duly arrived and we began to make some real progress at last,Richard Catlin & Keith kindly handed over the night watch to Charlie, Pauland myself (Ray) only for the cruising chute to split half an hour later at 4.30am Charlie being the youngest was duly despatched to recover the Chute which Imust say was completed without any fuss all ended well (apart from the chutewhich will need some TLC)  we continued without further incident. Now enjoying the strongest winds we have had for a few days and sailingwell, watch out in front we are coming to get you .  . read more...