The aluminium dingy that floated past us during the gale was full of water and our Torqedo outboard struggled to tow it back. When I started to bale I quickly realised that of the two burst rubbish bags in the boat, one was full of used toilet paper. We did the minimum baling necessary before tying it to a mooring and handing the problem to the coastguard!
Sally and Simon left Scotland in 2015 on board Shimshal to begin a slow circumnavigation taking in various high latitude destinations. After 3 seasons in Greenland we sailed south to Lewisporte in northern Newfoundland. In 2019 we cruised the Canadian Maritimes. In 2022 & 23 we cruised via New England, Chesapeake, Florida, Cuba, Cayman, Providencia to Bocas del Toro. In late 2023 we transited the Panama Canal and in 2024 we sailed to French Polynesia via Galapagos.