We left Plymouth in July 2005 and arrived in Chicago in September 2007 via Brazil and Trinidad, where we laid up for the 2006 hurricane season.

Sentinel has been trucked from Chicago to Seattle on the west coast, and then sailed to Sidney on Vancouver Island where she was laid up to overwinter in 2007/8. Illness has meant an extended stay in England, and our earlier plan to cross the Pacific to New Zealand in 2008 is no longer practicable.

Instead, provided Andrew's health is stable, we will follow Plan B to cruise the west coast of North America during 2008, as far north as Alaska by midsummer and then south. Following that there are two options. We could aim for western Mexico by January 2009. From there we would cross the 2,700 miles to the Marquesa Islands and then cruise through Polynesia reaching New Zealand in November 2009. Otherwise we could stop somewhere like Los Angeles, and from there out to Hawaii in spring 2009, again reaching New Zealand in November.