Cesarina - Oh, do the hokey-cokey...

"You pull your blue sail in, let your blue sail out, in out in out, shake it all about... you do the hokey-cokey and you turn around... that´s what it´s all about..."Forgive me if you aren´t familiar with this British (children´s) party classic, and please forgive me for the cringeworthy re-mix if you do. We have been up and down like yoyos with the sails for the last 24 hours. We started yesterday with a poled out genoa and full main, and then we rejigged and re-rigged everything and had the Parasailor up and flying eventually yesterday (see yesterday´s blog entry) but by dusk the wind had dropped to the point where even that sail was collapsing and we were worried about it getting tangled up in something in the night, so we put the deck lights on and got ready to douse the beast. We. read more...

Cesarina - CESARINA & Dietmar´s 8 inch lure...

We would have written a blog earlier on this trip but we were too busy holding on to the boat for dear life. I know people think that sailing is glamorous, and in our case it was *extremely* rock & roll - completely wild for 36 hours with little sleep and a lot of performance-enhancing drugs (OK, just caffeine actually - no budget left for anything crazier when you own a boat ;)), and then a dreadful (swell) hangover where the wind dropped but the waves persisted so we flip-flopped through a sleep-deprived 24 hours of sloppy seas but decreasing winds. Ugh.Thankfully, Cesarina is used to all this and, like the ageing rock star she is, slid gracefully through the drama around her without so much as a chafed sheet. (Having just written this, I have crossed and uncrossed my fingers, touched. read more...

Cesarina - CESARINA- Just testing!

It's the day before the ARC+ departs and, typically, I still have five thousand jobs to do. First, though, coffee! And a quick test email to check that this works... Hope you're having a good weekend, and not as crazy busy as we are! Emma. read more...