After a long journey and flights running on Caribbean time, Dave landed in the BVI's(British Virgin Islands) last Sunday with his nephew Simon. The plan was to sail the 300 miles to Antigua via Saint Marten and Saint Barts. Of course nothing goes quite to plan! Dave noticed a small tear in the mainsail whilst checking over the boat. On closer examination when he took the main sail off there was more than one significant tear(they've only had a year to prepare the boat!). It seems whoever had been chartering the boat recently didn't even use the sail and therefore hadn't noticed the damage. We are now on Thursday evening and they are still in the BVI's. The mainsail has been put back on today and there were other things to fix, but I won't bore you with the details. During the last couple of days the wind has been strong, gusting around 25-35 knots. The plan is to wait until the wind dies down and then set off and head straight to Antigua which will take them around 30 hours.
Meanwhile the girls and I have been in Worcestershire with my parents catching up with friends and family. We
have started as we mean to go on and the girls are very keen to do their school work after breakfast (it was their idea to start this week!) Give them another week or so and they won't be so keen.
We fly out to Antigua on Monday morning and we'll see if Dave's there......
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