Glass Slipper - log

So Glass Slipper sailed all night long yet now with newlight still no sign of St. Lucia.  We keep watch looking for landfall butnothing.  Surly after sailing all night we would be there by now. Well we will keeping looking. read more...

Glass Slipper - day 3

Ok it's Tuesday now and still no St. Lucia.  We decided to pull out a map and measure.  Shows about 12 inches from Gran Canary to St. lucia.  Pulled out another map of the State of Michigan and from Beaver Island to Detroit is also about 12 inches.  Now by car that trip takes us about 4.5 hours so wouldn't you think even by slow boat we should be there by now. We are even flying our Parasailor day and night to make time yet still nothing but ocean.. read more...

Glass Slipper - Thanksgiving

All good on the Glass Slipper.  Cyndi has prepared a great turkey meal for later although we are still hoping to pull in a big tuna.  We have landed two small throwback so far.Our crew Kyle from England is trying to teach us "english" as the four of us americonos try to teach him "american"So we slowly continue toward the elusive St. Lucia . read more...

Glass Slipper - ARC log 30/11/2010

So Sunday we were sure we had arrived in St. Lucia.  We saw the island and it looked just like in the pictures.  Problem was after going around it two times we could not find Rodney Bay.  We finally asked a fisherman if the island was St. Lucia and he said it was part of Cape Verde or something like that.  So we asked if knew where St. Lucia was and he said "just turn right and keep going"  We of course asked if it was close and he replied "ya man, pretty close, just keep going that way and you will be there before you know it" Ok, so now it is Monday night and no St. Lucia.  We are starting to wonder about this whole ARC brochure.  First what about the tail winds?  We get nothing but head winds or no wind. Second, what about all the. read more...

Glass Slipper - day something

Little change, crap winds (or none) and no St. Lucia.  We are all sure we must have taken a wrong turn.  The compass moves around a lot in the rolling seas so it's hard to know which way you are heading.  We think we have solved that however.  We put a big screwdriver by the compass, that made it swing to a stable position and now we can stay on course to st. Lucia.  We are sure it is somewhere between 190 and 340 degrees so we should be on it soon. . read more...