Exploring the Dismal Swamp

Martin Fuller and his partner Stephanie left Pwllheli, North Wales, in 2019 on a Sadler Starlight 39, to sail round the Atlantic bound for Greenland

Stephanie and I had left Cape Verde on the 6 January 2020, on a blustery and wet morning almost exactly six months before arriving at Elizabeth City in North Carolina, USA.

For the early part of our passage the pandemic had hardly featured at all but from the Turks and Caicos Islands northwards, restrictions began to bite; however, we were fortunate to be able to enter the USA