We generally keep our plans of where we’re sailing to pretty close to our chest.

It’s not to hide our location, only tell a certain few select people or because we’re particularly private people. It’s because most of time, we don’t know ourselves… Our plans tend to change with the wind!

In 2022 after arriving back in the Caribbean and refitting the boat, we missed our window to head north and consequently had to reassess our plans… again! We decided we might mosey our way towards the Pacific through the Panama Canal in early 2023, and we announced that to the world. When that time came around, we’d changed our minds again and now we wanted to intercept our earlier plan of sailing north… just a year later than planned.

So instead of announcing our new sailing plan all over again and potentially changing our minds before actually doing it, we kept our idea close to our chest until we were absolutely certain that we were going.

We also struggled with where to actually sail to ‘north’ so it didn’t make sense to tell people until we knew ourselves. UK via Azores seemed like the safer/well-trodden path but we just really wanted to go to Iceland! Figuring this out on a chart, we realised that the distance (as the crow flies) from St Martin to UK was 3760nm and from St Martin to Iceland was 3830nm. That’s just 70 miles difference or half a day of sailing over a multi-week passage! The distance however, isn’t the part of the plan that most people balk at, it’s the nonstop factor and the higher chance of gales in the northern latitudes… a concern if you can’t pick your weather window because you’re going nonstop.

After 5 years of mid-latitude sailing, we asked ourselves:

“Do we have 5 years of experience, or 1 year of experience 5 times?”

We felt like it was time to push the envelope and be a little more like the sailors we are inspired by…
So here’s our announcement, we are heading to Iceland!

From there, we’ll spent time in Norway, Svalbard, UK, Faroe Islands and see where the wind takes us until Autumn of 2024.

As our filming is week to week and as usual, we are up to real time, we hope you’ll understand that we will be going quite on YouTube for the duration of the passage. We’re very excited to announce our plans and we hope you’ll enjoy coming on our journey with us!