Not happy. It is one thing joking about your daughter on the ocean waves and quite another when gale force winds and snow are forecast. I am such a lover of all things hot I cannot imagine in a million years how it must feel to be perishing cold and wet without a hope of [...]

I can only imagine minimus’s first sight of her ocean home. Thrilled. Terrified. Excited beyond belief. And the cosy shelf that will be her bed for almost a month when she sails the Atlantic? Hmm, perhaps not quite so thrilled. For now she will be sailing in heavy seas and freezing rain to Alderney in [...]