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    Provisioning for passages

    Apr 16, 2020 6 minutes

    Four years ago my husband took part in the ARC (Atlantic Rally for Cruisers) in our Sigma 362. As he left the dock in Las Palmas I thought to myself that, next time, the children and I would go too. They were only two and four years old at the time, and we felt too small to cross the Atlantic in such a small boat.

    So instead the three of us flew out and joined the boat in St Lucia and we spent 11 months sailing through the West Indies, across to Jamaica, up through the Bahamas and then up the East Coast of America. We reached New York in July 2016 by which time we’d run out of time. Our son Arthur was to start school in a couple of weeks, and our tenants were handing our house back to us.

    However the trip was hard to get out of our heads and we just knew we had to

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