Join us as we sail for a 1,000 miles from Puerto Rico to the San Blas islands. Huge seas and winds of 40-65 knots were encountered and some of the fleet suffered knock-downs. We coped well but were very pleased indeed to arrive intact in Porvenir after a rapid 5 day passage.

Follow the shocking story when our 20ft long spinnaker pole fell from the mast knocking the skipper unconscious. Sheila and the children took it in their stride, contacting the US Coast Guard and sailing Miss Tippy for 8 hours to a safe harbour in Puerto Rico where Brian could be taken to hospital for treatment of his head injuries!

This part shows our cruising around the beautiful islands of St Marten, Anguilla, and around the British Virgin Islands (including Virgin Gorda, Anegada, and Tortola). A lovely break before continuing our voyage with a 1,000 mile passage to the San Blas islands in Panama.

After Christmas in Antigua we cruised towards the British Virgin Islands visiting some beautiful islands en route. This first part of our two part film on our Caribbean experience includes Antigua, Barbuda, St Kitts, Saba and St Barts. We hope you enjoy!

It was overwhelming to arrive in the beautiful land of Antigua after three weeks at sea. This film describes our arrival as well as those of a number of other rally boats….you can feel the excitement.

We had an exciting Transatlantic crossing. Despite light winds and lightning storms we made the 3000 mile crossing in 19 days and arrived happy and intact at Jolly Harbour in Antigua.

Light variable winds dominated this first leg of the Blue Water Rally. A good time for getting into the rhythm of ocean sailing and fishing.

At 1000 on October 25th, 2009 a canon exploded forth on Europa point and the rally finally began!! Watch as the 17 yachts set sail for Lanzarote!

Several crews from the Blue Water Rally share their thoughts on the eve of the start of their around the world adventure!

Our first cruise with the Rally took us to Smir in Morocco. Besides invigorating sailing we had great fun visiting the ancient town of Tetuan and local souks before returning home.