As you may remember our plan for our family in Montego Bay. We didn’t make it in 2020 and so the Lilli Mae "Journey Home” is unfinished business. And so we are now in the process of setting sail again to complete the mission. Lilli Mae is now “On the way to Mo’Bay”. We are currently in Gibraltar and we have set sail (Friday 30th September) aiming to reach Las Palmas Gran Canaria. We will be at sea for 4-5 days. In November 2022 we will set off to cross the Atlantic to the Caribbean (St Lucia) with a view to making a grand arrival in Montego Bay, Jamaica in March 2023.

Since 2020 however a lot of things have changed. Lilli Mae has morphed into a larger and more “sophisticated" yacht. In October 2021 we were very lucky to take ownership of an Oyster 56. Since taking ownership we have been working on the “new" Lilli Mae (known to us as Lilli Mae 2). Sitting in Queensway Quay Marina Gibraltar, Lilli Mae is gleaming and ready for her new adventures. We have lots of people to thank for their help and guidance in Premia de Mar (where Lilli Mae was initially based), Mataro, Majorca and Estepona which are a few places we have enjoyed with people we have grown to love. They have helped us enormously in getting Lilli Mae into her gleaming state and for getting us capable of sailing her.

Prior to arriving in Gibraltar we sailed Lilli Mae between Barcelona and Palma Majorca and then from Barcelona to Gibraltar stopping in some lovely anchorages and marinas mentioned earlier on the way south. Mike, Joan and I took the month of August (2022) to do the journey.