A year afloat: to the Caribbean and back - Photos 2

Photos 2

A year afloat: to the Caribbean and back

Sam and Alex Fortescue

Sat 18 Dec 2010 13:51

Our 10kg wahoo

Graham preparing to go up the mast to fix the spinnaker halyard

Wind and flat seas - perfect for night sailing with the spinnakoo

..but the swell is never far away

Bacon for breakfast

Blog Entries

2011

Sep 2011

Mon 19 Sep 09:14
- Over, but not out

Aug 2011

Mon 22 Aug 18:58
- Quite a welcome at Poole Town Quay
Fri 19 Aug 12:22
- Laaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaand hooooooooooo!
Thu 18 Aug 11:57
- This is Falmouth Coastguard...
Wed 17 Aug 12:28
- Of rain, plenty of it, and signs of land. And bread.
Tue 16 Aug 09:54
- Mouse in the mast
Mon 15 Aug 11:55
- Woolly weather in the final approaches
Sun 14 Aug 11:53
- Butting our way through dull grey waters
Sat 13 Aug 10:37
- Six hundred miles from the Lizard
Fri 12 Aug 11:17
- Cynthia the sqid strikes mahi...
Thu 11 Aug 14:39
- The tunny strikes twice...
Wed 10 Aug 18:49
- Captain's log: supplemental
- Flapping through the night
Tue 9 Aug 14:44
- Walking a watery tightrope
Sun 7 Aug 17:40
- Mountaineering through the hydrangea forests of Faial
Sat 6 Aug 12:50
- Sten and Rosemarie, Sea Week and Portuguese hip-hop: a busy day
Thu 4 Aug 22:01
- Cloud bound on Pico
Wed 3 Aug 20:08
- Peek o' the volcano? Sadly not yet...
Mon 1 Aug 23:58
- Hiking through the hydrangeas on Flores

Jul 2011

Sun 31 Jul 19:20
- Photos from the Atlantic
- Land ho!
Sat 30 Jul 15:47
- Thar she bloooooows... Hard 'a port!
Fri 29 Jul 15:55
- On a blistering spinnaker reach
Thu 28 Jul 17:07
- Slow boat to Flores
Wed 27 Jul 15:44
- First signs of civilisation, steaming up astern
Tue 26 Jul 14:19
- From fair winds to foul.. and back again
Mon 25 Jul 17:24
- Neptune unleashes his minions
Sun 24 Jul 14:42
- The Midatlantic Scrabble Circle
Sat 23 Jul 17:29
- Eeeeeeeeeeek, splooooosh, pfffffffffffffffffffft...
Fri 22 Jul 15:35
- Humming along in the sou'westerlies
- Summer Daze of Chris
Thu 21 Jul 15:21
- Frolicsome fish fear fry-up
Wed 20 Jul 14:38
- Of swimming with the tuna and flying a woeful spinnakoo
Tue 19 Jul 17:45
- Scudding along through turquoise seas
Mon 18 Jul 15:18
- Life on the crest of a (big) ocean wave
Sun 17 Jul 17:45
- Atlantic-ho
Sat 16 Jul 16:58
- Into the Atlantic...
Fri 15 Jul 18:29
- Living like a Kennedy for a day in Martha's Vineyard
Sun 10 Jul 22:46
- Exploring Nantucket - the last of our American islands
Sat 9 Jul 00:34
- Whale hunting on passage to Nantucket
Fri 8 Jul 00:56
- position update
Wed 6 Jul 21:45
- FOG!
- Of flies and yah hairdos
Mon 4 Jul 03:08
- Keeping up with the Gatsbys in East Hampton
Fri 1 Jul 03:11
- Alex's birthday in Manhattan
- Position update

Jun 2011

Mon 27 Jun 16:52
- Statue of Liberty, Manhattan... Hell's Gate
Sat 25 Jun 19:10
- Neptune's breath and the crustacean's revenge
Fri 24 Jun 02:27
- Bzzzzzz. Bzzzzzzzzz. Pssssssssshhhhhhhhhh!
Thu 23 Jun 13:17
Wed 22 Jun 19:02
- Position update
Tue 21 Jun 03:57
- Pictures from Washington
Mon 20 Jun 04:38
- Walking through Washington
Sat 18 Jun 05:33
- In Annapolis with Anna
Fri 17 Jun 21:40
- A blistering sail at last
Wed 15 Jun 23:49
- Swimming with the crabs in the Venice of the Chesapeake
- Goodbye Graham, hello America
Sat 11 Jun 23:26
- Sweet home Virginia..
Fri 10 Jun 13:54
- Bristling with weaponry
Wed 8 Jun 04:04
- Safe and sound in the Chesapeake
Mon 6 Jun 16:43
- It was a Dark And Stormy Night... no, really
Sun 5 Jun 15:48
- Mission Control, we have Gulf Stream. Repeat...
Sat 4 Jun 18:51
- The Girl Who Played with Lightning
Fri 3 Jun 16:12
- Donking north under blue skies, with thoughts tending south
Thu 2 Jun 21:00
- Leaving the Caribbean behind
Wed 1 Jun 19:03
- Edging north into the Gulf Stream

May 2011

Tue 31 May 16:46
- Back at Nassau HQ with Graham
Sat 28 May 16:55
- Colours of the Bahamas photos
Fri 27 May 23:49
- Another one that got away
- Wandering around Warderick Wells
Thu 26 May 02:44
- Outraged of Summer Song: Rain
Tue 24 May 12:52
- Swimming pigs and slippery fish
Mon 23 May 16:48
- Three colours, turquoise, white and green
- Snapshots of the Bahamas
Sun 22 May 01:38
- Sharks, conches and shipmates
Fri 20 May 23:35
- A whole day of fishing, but nothing to show for it
- Position update
Wed 18 May 23:24
- Over the Yellow Bank when no-one was looking
Mon 16 May 22:00
- Going to America
Sat 14 May 18:55
- Vegas in the Tropics
Thu 12 May 17:07
- America... back on
- America or bust... hmmmm, bust please
Wed 11 May 14:50
- Honeytraps and hairdos
Mon 9 May 14:14
Sun 8 May 13:04
- Anchored up in the middle of nowhere
Wed 4 May 23:19
- Pelican ahoy...
Tue 3 May 02:41
- Radio silence...

Apr 2011

Fri 29 Apr 17:03
- Perfecting socialist society under the eyes of the imperialist hegemon
- in the heart of Old Havana
Sun 24 Apr 01:24
- From Cuba's worst to Cuba's best
Tue 19 Apr 13:16
- Like born snorkelers
Sun 17 Apr 13:16
- Just like home...
Sat 16 Apr 14:36
- In Cuba... but not actually IN Cuba
Thu 14 Apr 15:26
- Guillermo shoots... and scores! Two-nil to the Cubans
Wed 13 Apr 18:22
- Please fasten bikini straps as we make our final approach to Cuba...
Tue 12 Apr 19:45
- Cuba off the port side, as far as the eye can see...
Mon 11 Apr 14:00
- Unmarked coral, fine on the starboard bow!
Sun 10 Apr 17:11
- Motoring along under wide, empty skies
Sat 9 Apr 11:47
- Wallowing off the Dom Rep
Fri 8 Apr 19:07
- Sailing on past Puerto Rico, where the mahi-mahi leap
Thu 7 Apr 00:09
- One last day of decadence in the capital-imperialistic BVI
Sun 3 Apr 20:50
- Not first... but not quite last, either.
Sat 2 Apr 23:17
- Nanny Cay racing update

Mar 2011

Wed 30 Mar 13:42
- Reeling them in one by one...
Mon 28 Mar 19:42
- The Escapees get ready to race
Sun 27 Mar 04:24
- Sliding on to Tortola to meet HMS Benelux
Fri 25 Mar 20:08
- A giant grown-up's playground
Thu 24 Mar 20:01
- Spinnaker, fish and fine weather... all the good things in one day!
Wed 23 Mar 20:20
- Sint Maarten or St Martin?
Sat 19 Mar 18:22
- Rocking and rolling all night long in Saba
Thu 17 Mar 00:08
- Trifecta of immigration issues
Mon 14 Mar 18:50
- First foot on Cuban territory
Sun 13 Mar 17:03
- Arm wrestling with the bureaucrats
Fri 11 Mar 22:20
- End of Eden
- Photos from Montserrat
Tue 8 Mar 00:49
- Of volcanoes, cousins of brothers-in-law and barracuda
Thu 3 Mar 23:59
- 50 miles and a week later...
Tue 1 Mar 23:38
- The Caribbean returns...

Feb 2011

Sun 27 Feb 22:44
- Africa, fine on the port bow...
Thu 24 Feb 12:45
- Chilling in English Harbour
Tue 22 Feb 12:21
- HQ arrives in Antigua...
Sun 20 Feb 21:01
- Shipshape and awaiting inspection
Sat 19 Feb 00:41
- A whale past turtle o' clock?
Thu 17 Feb 00:05
- Goodbye Pointe a Pitre, hello Jacques Cousteau
Mon 14 Feb 21:17
- The apples of love...
Fri 11 Feb 00:14
- Guadeloupe proper, in style
Wed 9 Feb 15:43
- Bang. Crash. Sploosh. Now, repeat.
Sat 5 Feb 21:27
- To the Boiling Lake and back
Thu 3 Feb 23:15
- Getting down with the Midnight Groovers
Wed 2 Feb 23:05
- The most beautiful island yet?
Tue 1 Feb 20:43
- The croaking of a million frogs

Jan 2011

Sat 29 Jan 22:32
- Grockles and white sandy bottoms
Wed 26 Jan 14:47
- Bathing in the cloud forests
Mon 24 Jan 19:21
- Grockled up to le max
Sat 22 Jan 23:00
- Hitching a lift en francais
Thu 20 Jan 16:51
- Slack jawed with yokelish wonder
Tue 18 Jan 18:21
- Township rebellion... and nice waterfalls
Sun 16 Jan 14:59
- Anchored in the shade of a volcano
Thu 13 Jan 13:47
- Where the frigate birds soar
Mon 10 Jan 22:56
- Of squalls and chewy conches
Sat 8 Jan 22:52
- As far as the eye can see... underwater
Fri 7 Jan 16:24
- Of lubbers and lobsters
Tue 4 Jan 23:23
- Fresh pressed recruits
Sun 2 Jan 18:04
- And then there were two... but not for long

2010

Dec 2010

Thu 30 Dec 23:34
- Of cocoa and volcanoes
Tue 28 Dec 18:26
- Tabitha finds her sea legs
Sat 25 Dec 11:34
- Throw another barracuda steak on the barbie
Fri 24 Dec 13:20
- On south past the Grenadines
Thu 23 Dec 12:26
- Bathing in sulphur springs
Tue 21 Dec 23:05
- Two landmarks in one day
Sun 19 Dec 22:39
- Sliding in 28th overall
Sat 18 Dec 13:59
- Rodney Bay
- Photos 3
- Photos 2
Thu 16 Dec 17:22
- Photos at last - part 1
- Day 26 - Rum Punch for breakfast
Wed 15 Dec 17:02
- Day 25 - Land hoooooooo!
Tue 14 Dec 15:24
- Day 24 - Of nerves rediscovered and spinnakers
Mon 13 Dec 15:48
- Day 23 - Wafting along under blue skies
Sun 12 Dec 13:50
- Day 22 - Derring do on the high seas
Sat 11 Dec 13:30
- Day 21 - Things that go whooosh, bang, arggggh in the night
Fri 10 Dec 12:38
- Day 20 - Some competition at last
Thu 9 Dec 14:09
- Day 19 - All aboard the briny rollercoaster ride
Wed 8 Dec 14:39
- Day 18 - White water rafting
Tue 7 Dec 12:36
- Day 17 - Black, bloody mutiny, sir!
Mon 6 Dec 14:15
- Day 16 - Reflections from the Blue
Sun 5 Dec 16:21
- Day 15 - Closer to America than Africa
Sat 4 Dec 10:09
- Day 14 - What about the rest of the crew?
Fri 3 Dec 14:19
- Day 13 - spinnaker calms
Thu 2 Dec 15:47
- Day 12 - of flukes and fins
Wed 1 Dec 12:33
- Day 11 - Trades at last!

Nov 2010

Tue 30 Nov 11:29
- Day 10 - Motoring with the fishes
Mon 29 Nov 13:15
- Day 9 - Go WEST!
Sun 28 Nov 13:01
- Day 8 - Wind! Oh, no, my mistake...
Sat 27 Nov 12:49
- Day 7 - Off with the high horse, on with the donk
Fri 26 Nov 16:08
- Day 6 - Flukey winds and raw bonito
Thu 25 Nov 14:16
- Day 5 - Swimming with the dolphins
- Day 4 - Squid and spinnakers
Tue 23 Nov 13:29
- Day 3 - supplemental
- Day 3 - Reeling them in (boats not fish)
Mon 22 Nov 11:30
- Day 2 - approaching Morocco
Sun 21 Nov 13:57
- Last minute jitters
Sat 20 Nov 10:30
- The there were four... and a half
Wed 17 Nov 08:37
- Fogbound in London
Tue 16 Nov 10:04
- Stepping up a notch
Sun 14 Nov 18:05
- Then there were three
Sat 13 Nov 11:17
- Surf's up...
Fri 12 Nov 09:51
- Safe for sea
Tue 9 Nov 19:52
- Three months... and we've made it to the start line
Mon 8 Nov 18:17
- Man 0 Beast 2
Sun 7 Nov 18:37
- Back in the saddle
Sat 6 Nov 19:44
- Of orchids and hasty departures
Fri 5 Nov 10:59
- Forty miles and a world of difference...
Wed 3 Nov 19:24
- And still the winds blow...
Mon 1 Nov 19:10
- Tinned peas have neveer been so much fun

Oct 2010

Sun 31 Oct 18:28
- Mini break in Porto Santo
Sat 30 Oct 18:15
Thu 28 Oct 15:40
- Wind at last
Wed 27 Oct 21:23
- Thar she blows!
Tue 26 Oct 19:49
- Just me and the Dark Lord
Sun 24 Oct 00:21
- The lights of Lisbon at last
Thu 21 Oct 19:15
- Joao, Joao...
Wed 20 Oct 20:57
- Into a fish!
Tue 19 Oct 21:42
- Not smiling any more...
- Inching south again
Sun 17 Oct 18:24
- Pictures from the Rias Bajas
- Two days in porto
Fri 15 Oct 07:44
- Things that go bump in the night...
Wed 13 Oct 20:25
- Taste of the Caribbean
Tue 12 Oct 18:25
- Martini sailing at last...
Mon 11 Oct 21:17
- Martinis on the foredeck...
Sun 10 Oct 19:00
- Yesterday New Zealand, today Norway
Sat 9 Oct 19:29
- Peering over the parapet
Fri 8 Oct 18:25
- Inching closer to the end of the earth
Thu 7 Oct 20:23
- More squid
Sun 3 Oct 15:41
- Photos!
- Of squid and DVDs

Sep 2010

Thu 30 Sep 08:27
- Wind on the nose... again
Tue 28 Sep 18:57
Fri 24 Sep 09:00
- San Vicente de la Barquera
Mon 20 Sep 15:33
- On the Spanish main
Sun 19 Sep 08:55
- Something goes splash in the night...
Wed 15 Sep 13:38
- Catching some Rés
- Position update - Ile d'Yeu
Thu 9 Sep 22:45
- Sandy bottoms in Noirmoutier
Wed 8 Sep 18:07
- Across the Maginot line
Tue 7 Sep 16:53
- 30s chic in La Turballe
- What? Houat...
Sat 4 Sep 09:52
- Three nights in Belle Ile

Aug 2010

Tue 24 Aug 09:34
- On the beach
- Another world in the Glenans
Sun 15 Aug 09:12
Fri 13 Aug 16:49
- Moules au curry
- All nighter
Wed 11 Aug 18:55
- On our way at last!
Mon 9 Aug 22:23
- Aiming for the water... and missing
Sun 8 Aug 21:35
- Explosion in a sail factory
Sat 7 Aug 22:15
- Sanding the hull

Jul 2010

Fri 23 Jul 11:47
- Ten more days to go