Oct. 18, 2008 - Back soon

Just a quick update as the Blog has been idle since June.  We are booked to return on 4 Nov and the boat is due back in the water on the 11th.  The time in UK seems to have flown by although it has not been particularly succesful, our house sale fell through literaly at the last moment and we have ended up squatting with Fis sister the whole time.  She will be joining us for 3 weeks in January by way of recompense.  I did some work with Sunsail but have concentrated on going back to school and am now a PADI Divemaster and RYA Cruising Instructor, which may help abroad and give me more opportunities when/if we come back.

Our plans such as they are, will be to mosey up to St Lucia by Christmas, where we will leave the boat in Rodney Bay and fly home for a couple of weeks (Fi misses the kiddies).  We return on 2 Jan and spend 3 weeks with Robbie, probably going up to Martinique and even Dominica - rather depends on the good old 'Christmas winds'.  Our mate Troutbridge should be over the pond by then and we expect to meet up in St Lucia at the end of Jan.  After that - we haven't realy decided.  I would like to go to the USVIs and even Puerto Rico if there is time also the Monseratt and Nevis chain of Islands.  We are also considering doing some chartering work, at least to see if it suits or not.

Whatever - at least we can turn the news off and ignore the rest of the world for a while !!!!!!