Infinity of Yar - Leg 1 - Plymouth to Baiona

We made it to the start line!  Jobs list finished.  Phew!  Well, almost finished.  Just when I thought I had managed to get all the sat comms working, suddenly everything stopped working the day before departure.  Argh!  Not only that, but I’d blown my monthly sat comms budget in 24hrs.  Arkwright the racing pigeon would have delivered messages more reliably than my system and cost me a lot less too!  Like all challenges on this journey so far, we fixed it and we were then ready to go. Who would have guessed we’d have champagne sailing as far as Finisterre?!  Downwind all the way and plenty of sunshine.  Clear nights with a full moon.  Plenty of dolphins and three sightings of whales in Biscay.  Fabulous!  Until we reached. read more...

Infinity of Yar - Let the journey begin!

18 months of planning and we were only 50 minutes late leaving Cowes!OK, so there are a few jobs still to be done before the start of ARC Portugal next weekend but confidence is rising.We found space for all the spares, tools and safety equipment Infinity might need during her year away.Then we had to find more space for 30kg of granola, 80 cans of tonic water, 800 teabags, 7kgs of coffee...I’m relieved to discover this is for the ARC+ too!The first leg of our long journey was a short motor to Lymington yesterday (Saturday 27th May) and then a lovely sail to Portland today in gorgeous sunshine and a 10kt following breeze most of the time.Jules came with us from Cowes but had to get back to London, so we dropped her and Arkwright the racing pigeon off in Weymouth before anchoring in. read more...