Today we are leaving France, from the island of Bréhat, with the aim to sail over the next two weeks non-stop to Greenland! You can follow us at this link:
Heading 293°
We will soon be heading west-northwest 293° from Saint-Malo via Ireland to Southwest Greenland on board the Atlas, a 43-foot Swiss-flagged, Dutch-built steel yacht of Dick Koopmans design.
More updates to come as our adventure starts next week – watch this space!
Twoflower is born
I doubt that many would say that choosing a name is easy. But we’ve never had to choose a name for something as important as our new family before. We know that whatever name we choose for our boat will extend to cover the two of us as well. And while people can choose what they introduce themselves as, our boat will have its name emblazoned across her for all the world to see.
Angie and I spent a long time discussing ideas for names. We wanted to navigate through the clichés, the dodgy jokes, the overly ambitious and the generic and come up with something that suited us and the boat. Finally, we had to second guess the names already taken in the UK Part I shipping register, in which names must be unique, but no public list of the taken names is available.