Blake - Full Circle

The beauty of a nightwatch is you get a lot of time to think about stuff, where you are, where you’ve been and maybe scheme what’s next. We’ve probably done a few full circles out here as we turn into the wind to either put in, or shake out, a reef on the mainsail but I was thinking more of how this ARC feels like a full circle is about to be completed.

So I had sailed across in ARC 2011 aboard ‘Felicity J’ a Dufour 385 owned by a cool Aussie family and at the final ARC prizegiving in Saint Lucia I first met Katie. Katie had flown down to visit her friends who had also sailed across on their own boat and well the rest they say is history!

10 years on and it feels pretty special to be sailing together aboard ‘Blake’ with our two daughters Iwalani & Anela and headed back to Saint Lucia. A lot has happened in that time and I feel very fortunate and grateful for all the wonderful experiences shared with Katie and our girls.

We’re certainly enjoying our time ‘out here’ but we’re also looking forward to being ‘over there’ and thoughts are turning to cold beers with new friends, reggae music, ice creams, and hotel beds that don’t move!


Aloha, Lyall