Here is the boat out of the water in the yard at Puerto Calero, Lanzarote.    Check out the sleek lines of this Ocean 60 schooner.  Built in about 1984 with a GRP hull and loads of smart mahogany below she weighs in at about 32 tonnes, and should slice through the water a bit quicker this year after a scrape to remove unwanted marine life.   Plus everyone had a good hard look at where the keel joins the hull.   

The water-maker has been fixed and the headsail patched.  We just need to get some tuck into the freezers and maybe a few bottles of wine beneath that snug little hatch by the nav table.  Then we will hitch a lift on the trade winds to Antigua, where the boat was last seen in the late 1990s.   Watch this space.