News from Panama – and off into the Pacific!

Having left Dominica in a force 3, we made gentle progress Westwards toward the Venezuelan coast through great long patches of Sargassum weed, which put paid to our hopes of getting fish.   There were occasional vessels that appeared on our AIS transponders including a large cruising ship which crossed our course line from South to…

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By their fruit – book published!

How can we measure belief systems to see if they measure up to the Bible? This book challenges the reader to start a genuine evaluation of the world’s most powerful belief systems to enable them to see how they affect thinking, decision making and indeed policy making. Like a transparency it will enable the reader to overlay belief systems over the holy scripture to see how they measure up.

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They arrived in Colon!

Living Water and her crew arrived yesterday 22nd Feb 19 in Shelter Bay Marina at the Caribbean entrance to the Panama Canal after a good passage across the Caribbean, covering 400 miles in 2 days at the fastest point! Tomorrow the crew are going to a local church and then continue preparing for the Panama…

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Crossing the Caribbean Sea

…and they are off again! After a good time of R and R (rest and repairs) in Antigua and Dominica, the crew departed for the next leg of their journey, 1100 miles across the Caribbean sea. They are making good progress so far and I had a text from them this morning saying: Good wind…

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We’ve crossed the Pond!

Our departure is logged at 09.50 12th January in an East South Easterly wind at F3 to F4.    We had completed 1377NM since leaving Cowes with varying degrees of inclement weather, but if anyone was fazed by the 2,500 NM ahead of us I could not see it.    The conditions were moderately warm as we…

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All is well at sea

I have been keeping in touch via satellite text message with the crew and they just sent me this update, they probably have another 5 days or so at sea and had a small problem with some sail sliders which they have been trying to repair. A full repair will have to wait till they…

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Crossing the pond!

Today “Living Water” departed from Madeira bound for the Caribbean. They have 2600 miles ahead, hopefully all downhill! Which will take 18 days if they average 6kts. Of course there is no guarantee what wind they will have so they may be faster or slower. The watermaker is now installed and they will be testing…

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Update from Madeira

Having received many of your emails asking for information and also acknowledging to us that you are following our progress on the tracker. It has been a period of much excitement, tension and rejoicing since leaving Falmouth. As many of you know our crossing of the Western Approaches (to the English Channel) proved to be…

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We arrived in Madeira!

Living Water has arrived in Madeira!After a slow passage from Spain, the crew are finally in warmer weather and an area of fairer winds! After stopping for a night at anchor off Porto Santo to delay their arrival in Madeira till daylight, Living Water has just arrived in the marina, ready for the crew to…

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Bound for Madeira

After a few days rest and recuperation in Bayona and a turkey dinner, Living Water has just cast off again bound for Madeira, 600 miles to the SSW. There is no wind today, but they are expecting some to arrive when they get level with Lisbon. Spirits are high on board, and when I spoke…

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