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	<description>The adventures of Liz and John Gordon on their Island Packet 380</description>
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		<title>St Lucia</title>
		<description><![CDATA[St Lucia 7th February Time is marching on and we are becoming quite anxious at the lack of progress we are making towards St Maarten. Having bee shaken and stirred on the passage up from Trinidad we took a day or so to recover.The body really doesn’t appreciate 14 hour pilates work outs. Holding the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Time to say goodbye to Trinni</title>
		<description><![CDATA[February 5th Prickly bay Grenada Well we have finally had a sail! What a sail it was. After many false starts the boat was launched about a week later than planned. The marina were very understanding about the regular change of launch dates but we didn’t see the point in putting her in the water [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The End of the Season &#8211;  Trinidad once more.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Well after a few wonderful sails we have made it back to Trinidad. The transmission repair held and the boat was performing really well without all the barnacles and weed on her bum. We managed 8 knots on more than one occasion &#8211; so were really pleased with the performance. Whilst the sailing was great [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Home away from Home  5th May</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Having left Guadelope after a couple of false starts and with everything crossed that the repair Fred had done to the torque limitor, propshaft, cutless bearing and heaven knows what else – we had a terrific sail down to Dominica. At times the winds were up to 29 knots so we were creaming along in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Giving up in Guadelope  heaven forbid</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So here we are again. This morning we got ready for the launch at 9.00 a.m. Not a lot to do really so we switched on local t.v. and picked up the royal wedding. She was a beautiful bride. Managed to go and do a quick shop as well before 9 a.m. The lift guy [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nous sommes arrivee</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Nous somme arrive! 26th April tied to a small motor boat at Fred’s yard awaiting a haul out first thing tomorrow morning. Can’t believe that we have finally made it to Point a Pitre at last. Talk about tortuous trip. We left Deshaies on Good Friday and got as far as Basse Terre which was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>EASTER  !</title>
		<description><![CDATA[HAPPY EASTER# Having spent a couple of days in Falmouth in Antigua watching some of the Classic Yacht regatta, visiting with a friend a couple of times and generally getting the boat back to rights after our visitors (actually we went mosi hunting as Jane had such bad bites we felt sure they were breeding [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Antigua in April</title>
		<description><![CDATA[13th April ANTIGUA Well we have finally reached Antigua. After a month in St Maartens it began to feel like we would never get here. Glad to report that the boat performed well once we moved out of the marina in St Maarten. Once out guests had gotten themselves installed we headed round to the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jalan-jalan.org.uk/antigua-in-april/</link>
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		<title>April fools or what!  5thApril</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Well who would have believed it.  Anchors aweigh lasted all of about 20 minutes.  We lifted the achhor and headed out of Simpson (as we thought at last)  .  We had just gotten about a mile and were beginning to up the revs on the engine when we heard a horrible growling noise and smelt [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Anchors aweigh</title>
		<description><![CDATA[26th March &#8211; Simpson Bay Well it has been a long time since we dropped anchor with a great sigh of relief. Fortunately the bay that we are anchored in is very pretty and the water is relatively clean. There is a beautiful long stretch of white beach which fortunately doesn’t have the usual string [...]]]></description>
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