Sailing Princess Arguella

Sailing Princess Arguella

An adventure sailing from the Mediterranean to the Caribbean and back

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  • About
    • The Boat
    • The Crew
      • Ron three sheets to the wind
      • Sail in a gale with John and Cathy
  • The Mediterranean
    • The Aeolian Islands
    • The jewels of the West coast of Sicily: Syracusa, Etna, Taormina.
    • Cagliari in numbers
    • Seven things we love about Corfu
    • Greek maybe time
    • Corfu to Sicily
  • The Windward Islands
    • Saint Lucia, first taste of the Caribbean
    • The Grenadines Part 1
    • Chatham bay and Carriacou
    • Grenada. Under the spell of Spice Island
  • Crossing an ocean
    • With or without the ARC?
    • With a lot of help from our friends
    • Atlantic adventure. Looking back.
    • Crossing the Atlantic
    • Landing in Cape Verde: November 18 – 21
    • We made it to Cape Verde!
    • Las Palmas with the ARC
    • Mad for Madeira having fun in Funchal (sorry… couldn’t resist)
    • First Atlantic stop : Porto Santo to Funchal
    • First taste of the Atlantic: from Gibraltar to Madeira
  • The Leeward Islands
    • Guadeloupe le retour: left hand side of the butterfly wing
    • Three weeks and five islands with Rob and Sally
    • St Bart’s for Le shopping and turtles
    • Saba, unspoiled Queen of the Caribbean
    • Sint Maarten 50th carnival 1st May Parade
    • Laid back Anguilla
    • Grand Case for Happy Hours
    • April in Saint Martin/Sint Maarten. Chandlery heaven.

Sailing Princess Arguella

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An adventure sailing the Mediterranean on to the Caribbean and back

the on going adventures of ....

The dream

The dream

How it all began... not over night but after years of armchair sailing, and the search for the right boat.
The Atlantic Crossing

The Atlantic Crossing

Looking back at some highs and lows of crossing the Atlantic
Summer in the Caribbean

Summer in the Caribbean

5 reasons to stay in the Caribbean in hurricane season
Future plans

Future plans

The tropics in hurricane season and pirate alley. Are we mad?

Return to SXM 2020

Posted on July 2, 2020 by admin

Saint Martin, March 4th 2020. Last chance to party… Our stay in Saint Martin was a short one this year, cut even shorter when I came down with a nasty read more..

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Saint Barth’s 2020. A last taste of freedom…

Posted on May 8, 2020 by admin

I am writing this update two months after our visit. This was our last island visit before the shadow of Covid19 overtook us and as such I am (currently) nostalgic read more..

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Barbuda – Le Grand Bleu

Posted on March 22, 2020 by admin

Barbuda  February 2020 If you like  to get off the beaten track, beautiful, creamy white sand beaches as far as the eye can see with hardly a soul on them, read more..

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Roger’s trip: Saint Lucia to Antigua

Posted on March 12, 2020 by admin

Simon’s brother, Roger joined us for (almost) three weeks timed to celebrate Simon’s 65th birthday with us. Together we had some great sailing, some well deserved liming and awesome fresh read more..

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Saint Lucia 2020: One love, two mooring buoys.

Posted on February 13, 2020 by admin

 This blog post mostly focuses on the beautiful places to visit on the different islands that we visit, the truth of the matter is that after more than a year read more..

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Christmas and New Year in Bequia and Martinique. A few of our favourite things

Posted on January 14, 2020 by admin

Christmas in Bequia and New Year in Martinique (as well as a chunk of January 2020) have been very lovely. On the day before we are due to sail south read more..

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Wild Tobago

Posted on January 13, 2020 by admin

Beating to get off the beaten track Many folk imagine that sailing in the Caribbean means that you have the opportunity to anchor up in deserted bays and have the read more..

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Tobago. A tale of two islands.

Posted on January 3, 2020 by admin

Putting our feet up in Tobago   After three months of (more or less) hard work in Trinidad, Tobago is the reward that every hot, sweaty cruiser deserves. It is read more..

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Trini pitstop – part 3 October

Posted on December 3, 2019 by admin

Little did we think when we arrived in July that we would need to extend our three month visa, but mission creep can be a terrible thing! Our revised relaunch read more..

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Trinidad part 2. September

Posted on November 15, 2019 by admin

The World is your Oyster. Except when the Oyster is your world. Although our initial plan was to spend August in Trinidad and then to sail west to Bonaire in read more..

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Trinidad pitstop part one. August.

Posted on September 19, 2019 by admin

If you are a cruiser and you decide to stay in the Caribbean in summer (or hurricane season) then you have a few choices of where to stay to escape read more..

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Fond memories of the Grenadines

Posted on September 15, 2019 by admin

“I feel as if I’m on holiday” said Simon on week two of our stay in the Grenadines. Strange to say this, perhaps, as some folk imagine our lives to read more..

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Rachel’s fun facts about fish

Posted on September 7, 2019 by admin

If you don’t love snorkeling (and/or diving) and you live on a boat, you are surely missing out on half the world that you are visiting as soon as you read more..

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Bequia and Chatham bay.. back to our happy places

Posted on August 4, 2019 by admin

One of the nicest things about revisiting some of our favourite islands in the Caribbean chain is that we already have happy memories of them. Bequia is one of those read more..

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Marina time in Martinique

Posted on June 29, 2019 by admin

Up until this trip we had spent a grand total of four days in a marina in over 6 months. Three of those four days had been in Le Marin read more..

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Les Saintes in bloom

Posted on June 28, 2019 by admin

We sailed down to Les Saintes to break our journey before going further south to Martinique. A small archipelago of five islands which along with Marie Galante are part of read more..

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In like a lion, out like a lamb. Deshaies to Les Saintes in June

Posted on June 24, 2019 by admin

We took a deep breath after having anchored in what must be the windiest anchorage in the Caribbean (when it isn’t completely becalmed with all boats lying differently around their read more..

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Antigua. What we hadn’t planned for…

Posted on June 24, 2019 by admin

We waved goodbye to our friends doing the more conventional thing of getting the hell out of the Caribbean and sailed down to Antigua from Saint Bart’s. The trip down read more..

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St Bart’s for Le shopping and turtles

Posted on June 3, 2019 by admin

St Bart’s has a certain prestige that seems to incite a reaction all around the Caribbean. When we told an Antiguan lady that we had just been to St Bart’s read more..

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Saba, unspoiled Queen of the Caribbean

Posted on May 27, 2019 by admin

      If one of the most attractive aspects of cruising the Caribbean is the variety that can be had within a short day’s sail, I recommend the sail read more..

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Sint Maarten 50th carnival 1st May Parade

Posted on May 16, 2019 by admin

  This 50th anniversary carnival parade in Philipsburg was a riot of colour, noise (sometimes too much noise for the skipper) and free refreshing drinks distributed from the floats which read more..

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Laid back Anguilla

Posted on May 16, 2019 by admin

From our bay overlooking Grand Case, Anguilla was just across the water. A mere half day’s sail away, we were sometimes tricked us into thinking we could see white horses read more..

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Grand Case for Happy Hours

Posted on May 16, 2019 by admin

 Our friend Chris got there before us and posted pictures to tempt us there. Grand Case instantly felt like the sort of place where you can sling your hook and read more..

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April in Saint Martin/Sint Maarten. Chandlery heaven.

Posted on May 16, 2019 by admin

There are islands in the Caribbean which have wonderful snorkeling, long, sandy beaches and turquoise waters. There are islands with French culture and cuisine, affordable restaurants and boulangeries (a definite read more..

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Guadeloupe le retour: left hand side of the butterfly wing

Posted on April 3, 2019 by admin

So far, two islands have really enchanted me. One is Granada, where we spent long enough to start to feel at home. The other is Guadeloupe that we visited briefly read more..

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Three weeks and five islands with Rob and Sally

Posted on March 15, 2019 by admin

Our friends, Rob and Sally, flew to Martinique to join us on the Princess for three weeks of cruising up to Antigua where they flew back to the UK. By read more..

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Grenada. Under the spell of Spice Island

Posted on February 9, 2019 by admin

On our meander down the Caribbean island chain we were originally unsure how far south we would sail until we read about Grenada in the guide books. “Spice Island” as read more..

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Chatham bay and Carriacou

Posted on February 9, 2019 by admin

I start this entry with a confession. Union island is part of the Saint Vincent and the Grenadines chain. Having checked out of St Vincent in Clifton, however, we couldn’t read more..

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With or without the ARC?

Posted on January 10, 2019 by admin

ARC or not the ARC? We crossed the Atlantic as part of a rally organised by the World Cruising Club called the Atlantic Rally for Cruisers (or ARC for short). read more..

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The Grenadines Part 1

Posted on January 9, 2019 by admin

  After arriving at Saint Lucia before Christmas we decided to sail south to the bottom of the chain of the windward islands (the lower part of the Caribbean chain). read more..

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Saint Lucia, first taste of the Caribbean

Posted on December 31, 2018 by admin

This island lies towards the bottom of the Caribbean chain and is classed as one of the Windward islands, so called because when beating north, these islands lie to windward. read more..

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With a lot of help from our friends

Posted on December 31, 2018 by admin

An Atlantic crossing requires skill, pluck, a decent boat, some wind… and most importantly of all, a great crew. Harmonious crew dynamics when living together in such a confined and read more..

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Atlantic adventure. Looking back.

Posted on December 31, 2018 by admin

Having had a little time to relax in the sunshine after our crossing, it is fun now to look back at our trip together, reflect on some of the highs read more..

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Crossing the Atlantic

Posted on December 6, 2018 by admin

After all the planning and dreaming, finally we did it! The passage exceeded all our expectations and in the end, the Princess sailed like a dream. We had the perfect read more..

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Landing in Cape Verde: November 18 – 21

Posted on December 5, 2018 by admin

After seven days at sea in sometimes exasperatingly light winds, we were excited to see land loom up in front of us. Cape Verde is an archipelago of ten islands, read more..

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We made it to Cape Verde!

Posted on November 21, 2018 by admin

Las Palmas to Mindelo, Cape Verde. : 850 Nautical Miles Left: Sunday 11 November at 1pm. Arrived safe and sound and with everything working (more or less!) Sunday November 18th read more..

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Las Palmas with the ARC

Posted on November 10, 2018 by admin

November 1st to November 11th All of us at the restaurant having celebrated both Cathy and Ron’s birthdays. One more to go… my 50th will be at sea… We arrived read more..

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Mad for Madeira having fun in Funchal (sorry… couldn’t resist)

Posted on November 5, 2018 by admin

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First Atlantic stop : Porto Santo to Funchal

Posted on November 1, 2018 by admin

  We had settled in to our routine of watch systems and enjoying sunsets and sunrises on what was a trouble free sail from Gibraltar south towards the Madeira archipelago. read more..

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First taste of the Atlantic: from Gibraltar to Madeira

Posted on October 30, 2018 by admin

              October 13 to 25  We left Aguadulce on the south coast of Spain and had a magnificent sunset and a brilliant dolphin escort read more..

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Aguadulce, our last week in the Med.

Posted on October 14, 2018 by admin

    We had scheduled to spend a week in a cheap and cheerful marina on the south coast of Spain as our final stop before heading over to Gibraltar read more..

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Cruise to Cartagena : 1 – 5 October

Posted on October 13, 2018 by admin

Leaving Mallorca we were excited to be back out at sea again after almost a month spent in and around Palma getting the Princess sorted. It had been a productive read more..

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Las Illetas. Beach holiday and boat jobs

Posted on October 3, 2018 by admin

Las Illetas is a quiet holiday resort between Palma and Megaluf (or “megateuf” as I called it, the party town of the island). This little corner of Palma bay has read more..

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First trip to Palma

Posted on October 3, 2018 by admin

  Palma, capital city of Mallorca is famous for its extraordinary cathedral, La Seu and its Gothic Palace, once an Arabic fort, the Palau d’Almudaina, both on the quayside and read more..

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Palermo

Posted on September 4, 2018 by admin

We visited two Italian capitals, one after the other: Palermo, the Sicilian capital and Cagliari the capital of Sardinia. A great way to take our leave of Italy with a read more..

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Volcanic islands

Posted on August 30, 2018 by admin
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The Aeolian Islands

Posted on August 30, 2018 by admin

Sulphur, fire, storms and sunsets in the Aeolian islands The Aeolian Islands are comprised of eight islands, two of which have active volcanoes; Vulcano (from which we get the word read more..

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The jewels of the West coast of Sicily: Syracusa, Etna, Taormina.

Posted on August 30, 2018 by admin

  Syracusa Afer our lovely passage from Lakka in the Greek island of Paxos, we made our first landfall in Siracusa (Brits call it Syracuse). This is a gem of read more..

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Seven things we love about Corfu

Posted on August 29, 2018 by admin

    Corfu was our base for the best part of two summers, the home of the Princess for several years before we bought her and the marina team at read more..

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Sailing the Ionian with Rob and Sally

Posted on August 19, 2018 by admin

Our first taste of living on board the Princess and cruising beyond Corfu with Rob and Sally. read more..

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Greek maybe time

Posted on June 8, 2018 by admin

Sitting on the dock of the bay, watching the tide roll away… When we budgeted for a month of repairs we were rather optimistic about what could be achieved within read more..

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Sardinia to Mallorca

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Corfu here we come

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