After almost two years onboard Alithia and almost 20,000 miles, the time has come to move on.
We had a fabulous sail from Cape Town, Via La Reunion and the Seychelles to Langkawi in Malaysia. Some new sails are due to arrive but that is for the new team to put on the boat as I have a new and exciting project to move on to – details to follow soon…
After 20 days at sea, and some pretty good weather routing between two weather systems, we arrived into a fog bound Cape Town where Alithia will be staying for some down time. This gives the crew a chance to fix the boat after a tough 6500 miles at sea which unfortunately caused some damage. We will be getting all the sails off and serviced, the boat cleaned and all the broken parts mended from the trip. While there we will be lifting her out of the water to replace the thruster door with a new improved stronger solution. We will also have the opportunity to complete repairs to the keel bulb after an unscheduled encounter with the seabed!
After a tough 15 days slogging it out upwind from Antigua to Fernando de Noronha off the Brazilian coast, Alithia has sustained some damage. The bow thruster doow has been ripped off and we have had to get a replacement made in Italy and shipped out so that we can effect a temporary repair before heading off to Cape Town, some 4000 miles away across the Southern Atlantic.
It took two of us repeatedly diving under the bow to remove the old brackets and fix the new door with some locally fabricated brackets in order for us to continue oour journey.
After the Champagne Hippy project, I am now off onto another eighty footer, only this time we are off on a circumnavigation.
The plan being to sail the Med this summer, taking in Sardinia, Italy, Sicily, Malta, Croatia and Greece. Then back to Palma for a month yard period before siling down to the Canaries and after a couple of weeks cruising with friends and family of the owners, we sail across to the Caribbean for Christmas and New year
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