Author Archives: Piers Barnes-Sherwood

Weekend rules apply even when on extended holiday, so I didn’t do much today. I could get used to this non-working lark! About the only thing I did was to go down to the boat, theoretically to get the sails … Continue reading →

Now that I’ve completed stage 1 of my mission and bought the boat, I need to get cracking on stage 2 and get it ready for crossing the Atlantic. Odyssey is structurally sound but needs new rigging, instruments, radar, wind-vane … Continue reading →

Leaving Key West is always a bit of a wrench, and Jim and Sue were feeling it as much as I was, so after photographing each other at the southern-most point of the USA we stopped off at the International … Continue reading →

After all the rushing around of the last week it was great to get a bit of a lie-in and wake up to the relaxing sound of nothingness. Key West is not the kind of place to be in a … Continue reading →

Leaving Disney World this morning was a relief! I couldn’t wait to get away from all the brightly coloured plastic and cheerful piped music, so we departed with a squeal of tyres and smell of burning rubber. Not that we … Continue reading →

I don’t like wasting money but I’m afraid today I did exactly that and threw away my prepaid day pass to the Disney theme parks, abandoning Jim and Sue to the nightmare of brightly coloured plastic and mouse ears. I … Continue reading →

This morning we checked out of the Surf Studios and drove north to the Kennedy Space Centre, a trip of an hour or so. It’s basically a shrine to American hope and technology, embodied through those hero astronauts living and … Continue reading →

Today’s the day I signed my life away and became the proud new owner of Odyssey. We were up with the larks for an early breakfast and headed up Interstate 95 to Fort Lauderdale to meet Jim Eckells on the … Continue reading →

Friday morning dawned a little brighter than Thursday, and the sun came out as we breakfasted once again in the Pelican. After a quick stroll on the beach for Jim to film it we made our way up the road … Continue reading →

It felt good to wake up in Florida again, and I took Jim and Sue to the Pelican Hotel for breakfast. It was still raining, but not as heavily as the previous night and with some gaps in the clouds … Continue reading →