We emailed our Christmas greetings mid December and received many in reply - good news from all around the world! Another year over and an exciting 2025 ahead of us! This year we plan to visit the USA and Cuba in July and August. At the end of the year we plan to sail...

This is a re-posting of our spring news, which was published without any photos! Spring has sprung in Sydney and we are enjoying our sailing again, after a major refit of the electronics on Esprit. Weekends have been busy with the annual Jeanneau Rendezvous, where we...

Early in June the Watsons and us made our way to the Pittwater RSL for dinner and a show with a ten person group playing Motown music. I love the Motown sound of the seventies and went prepared with anti-inflammatories, to dance the night away. Clearly, our age group...

Just like the birds, cruising yachts have their migration seasons and May is a pretty big one covering all points of the compass globally. There are yachts passaging NORTH from NZ and Australia to the South Pacific; SOUTH from North Europe to the Mediterranean; EAST...

Our last post in January brought you up to date with the knee replacement I had on the 12th January. I'm happy to report that the op was a success and that I regained full mobility within a month. There were a couple of days of discomfort when I pushed it too hard...