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Arabella
Owner Grant Horsfield
Design Fountaine Pajot Victoria 67
Length Overall 19 m 67 cm
Flag Virgin Islands (British)
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25/11/2021

Arabella - wednesday

What a day Wednesday turned out to be. We were not moving so smooth. The wind was really light all day. We had purposely choose to sail really south but didn’t expect to find all the seaweed/sea plant that was floating everywhere. It was catching our rudder and prop shaft under the boat and most distressingly it was snagging our fishing lures. We’d changed the lures a dozen times and tried everything to prevent the constant snagging and we had almost given up when zzzzzzzzzzz came that beautiful sound. 1hour later and the sails dropped we landed a 500lb Blue Marlin!!! What a joy. What a Wednesday it turned out to be. The celebration was a can of beer!!!! And lots of food. BBQ on us when we get to Grenada. read more...


23/11/2021

Arabella - Arabella

After 5 days sailing we are becoming more and more creative with our cooking. With only 1 fish caught the meat stocks are dwindling. The kids are demanding Daddy catch fish but all we catching is this floating sea grass. Anyway, we stopped for a swim and even did some body surfing behind the boat today. Always Giunti in 6km of water. Hope everyone’s having fun out there. Love from Arabella.. read more...


09/11/2021

Arabella - The story of the one that got away

Today around 2pm we lost a huge Marlin. Spooled our 600m reel in no time whilst tail walking and jumping. We thought we may have caught our food rations for the entire crossing but sadly not to be. Another story about the one that got away!. read more...


08/11/2021

Arabella - Parasailor and Dolphins

After 24hours of strong winds we finally got a little breather this evening and decided to launch the parasail. As if on queue the Dolphins arrived and did magnificent jumps, entertaining our 3 daughters and ourselves tremendously. What a perfect evening!. read more...


07/11/2021

Arabella - Tricky news to start

We lost our port engine reverse gear last night. We tried everything till late to try get it back but it looks mechanical. Nothing we can do about it now. Guess we need to go forwards now and not backwards. Good luck everyone. See you in Cape Verde.  . read more...



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