The forestay is off and the furling gear is being removed here to enable the forestay cable to be replaced. This uses special low stretch Dyform stainless steel cable to resist the high loads in the rig. After 7 years use, it was good to strip this doen and replace [...]
Look no hands! And not much holding up the mast either We bought a replacement set of standing rigging from Spencers Rigging in Cowes (dont use them, they were appalling to deal with) and sent it down by truck to Corfu. We moved the boat next to.the Quay in Corfu [...]
Check out our route as we move 2000 miles out of the Med and down to the Canary Islands to prepare for crossing the Atlantic. We aim to be in Lanzarote for the first week in November. Its a little late in the season, so we are expecting mixed weather [...]
Have just received an email from Giovanni Soldini with pictures of his great Ocean 71 "Elmos Fire". hallo nigel and jane, My name is Giovanni Houdini I own Ocean 71 The name of my boat is elmos fire, i don find any more your page where the others, i think [...]
Well we are just flying home leaving George and Rachel to look after th boat in Rocogniza, Croatia. We have had a good 7 weeks on board and seen a lot of Albania, Montenegro and Croatia As we fly home from Split, we can see the islands we have just [...]
When we entered Montenegro, they required us to have a ships stamp. The harbour authority in Porto Montenegro made this stamp for us.
OceanFree is launched again for another season. She was left last winter in Cleopatra Boatyard in Preveza Greece. Everything was OK when Ego and I flew out to anti-foul and launch her. I had had some work done on the keel over the winter to repair some damage from a [...]
Dolphins all around us today just after we leave the Corinth Canal
