Just 6 days after crossing the Atlantic Peter and I headed home to Brisbane for only three weeks! Peter's middle grandson was getting married and we had our usual round of doctors, dentists, accountants etc to see. Especially since the next year will have us in the Pacific for the first 6 months then In Indonesia basically, with potentially less availability of these professionals. We did get the all clear and an extra needle or two. The wedding was in Melbourne ...

The passage to St Lucia was 11 days, 2096 nm. By day two we had caught 2 small mahi mahi and had fish and chips for lunch. Peter and Max did an engine service on both motors on day 3 which went smoothly and took about 2 hours per engine. We settled into the watch, sleep, eat, watch, sleep eat etc routine quite quickly after the last two legs of 3 and 4 days. We all do a 2 hour watch each at night and by day Shaunagh is off as she does lunch and dinner so Peter,...

We arrived in Las Palmas, Gran Canaria Island, at around 4pm just in time for the marina to get back from siesta! We'd forgotten we were basically back in Spain. It was an excellent trip and the guys even caught a fish. Nothing special though, just a bonito. We refuelled and checked in - sort of - no passport stamps or anything?! They found us the last berth in the marina right behind the fuel dock. The ARC Atlantic Rally boats were all in prior to their crossing...

After a very nice relaxing week in Gibraltar where we spoke English, replaced linen and bought English type provisions we left for Tangiers, Morocco. So farewell to Europe. One takeaway I have is that without the stupefying amounts of money and influence of some individuals and various religions, we would have none of the staggeringly amazing and diverse buildings and artworks and music that we have today. Just an observation. You have to cross the traffi...

Andratx on the Mallorcan coast is where we did our WINGit training with Srephan from WINGit, Germany. Jean-Yves, the rigging engineer from Lagoon, was also there for a day to check out the installation specific to this boat. He had specified all the fittings for it. We spent Monday afternoon and Tuesday getting accustomed to the theory of it and checking out the kites and remote control functions. Quite a steep learning curve as none of us had any experience of k...