escapade sailing

Our first impressions of Bonaire were not great. We arrived on a rare grey day and were reluctant to re-enter the developed world after all our off-grid island hopping. The south of Bonaire is low-lying so the trades blow out across the smooth water in the lee of the island.  It was breezy as we […]

To warm up a January day. This is our first attempt at a video for the blog.  We hope you like it.  

Living on a sailing boat in the tropics is all pretty good, an endless trail of islands to visit, all different, and naturally we like some more than others. But even the ones we don’t like so much are still pretty good. If we were to selfishly list our favourite characteristics in a sailing location it […]

Bit of a delayed post, again.  We have been offline for weeks. So after all that provisioning and preparation, we did not in fact set sail on 13th December, well we did, but not far. As we left the bay that afternoon I engaged the autopilot and found it was not working, with a message […]

As you sail away from the Bocas Del Dragon,the Northern part of Trinidad causes a huge wind shadow. we motored until we found a few knots of breeze as the sun came up. Jib out, motors off and Escapade was sailing at 8 kts on a smooth sea. As the wind and seas built we […]

Time for an Escapade update! By end of November the Atlantic hurricane season is over and a new Caribbean sailing season has begun. We left the cool wind and waves of Guernsey and travelled via London and New York to Trinidad. Escapade was waiting for us at Peakes Yard in Chaguaramas, just as we had […]

Last week I found myself at the helm of a multihull sailing yacht off the South coast of Brittany. The sun was shining and the instruments told me breeze was blowing at about 14kts. Our boat speed was 26kts across flat water. I felt the gust hit the main and the boat started to heel. […]

A quick update for our sailing friends. No we’re not off course. Escapade is still in Trinidad while Dawn and I have some time ashore. So far that has been in Miami, Ibiza, Guernsey, London, California, and this trip to San Carlos in Mexico.. Everything you need and nothing you don’t Punta San Carlos is […]

The last few days in Grenada were busy socialising with our new sailing neighbours from Switzerland and Guernsey, windsurfing at Adam Island and running with the local Hash House Harriers. This was our first HHH experience. They run at ankle-breaking speed across rocks and tree roots, through jungles, rivers and mountains, following a trail of […]

The Grenadines This winter has been our first extended sailing trip. Our free time used to be measured in days, weekends and occasional holidays, but always with a fixed return date to get back to work. Nine months on board seems to be long enough to get over all that! Time changes in the islands. […]