Sentinel is a Roberts 38 steel yacht owned by Andrew and Lyn. This website is a record of our travels after setting off from England in early 2005. There are three kinds of page. First are cruising accounts of places visited, second are other kinds of incident, and third is Lyn's cruising weblog, a diary of our progress and the highs and lows of the blue-water cruising life.

By putting our anecdotes and photos here, we hope our friends and relatives can read what interests them in their own time, and so not be faced by quite such indigestible amounts on the precious occasions when we get to meet. For anyone else who strays in, welcome! If you are interested in blue-water cruising, we hope you will find something to entertain you.

Site last updated: 30th June 2009. Sentinel is now in Fakarava, French Polynesia; S16º03', W145º37'.

Latest entries ...

► Destination: Marquesa Islands, added 3.6.2009
► Happening: Whale-watching on Clarion, added 15.5.2009
► Lyn's log, Jan - June 2009, last updated 30.6.2009
► Cruising Plans, last updated 15.5.2009

Previously ...

Destinations

Ushant, Jul 05
Gulf of Morbihan, Aug 05
The Coast of Death, Sept 05
Tenerife & Gomera, Nov 05
Cape Verde Islands, Dec 05
Fernando de Noronha, Jan 06
All-Saints Bay, Brazil, Feb 06
The Amazon, Apr 06
Devil's Island, May 06
Tobago, Jun/Oct 06
Grenada & Grenadines, Nov 06
The Virgin Islands, Dec 06
Cuba, Feb 07
Chesapeake Bay, May 07
North Channel, Lake Huron, Aug 07
Sailing to the Windy City, Sept 07
Desolation Sound, June 08
San Francisco Bay, August 08
San Benito Isles, Mexico, March 09

Happenings

Building a dinghy, Apr 05
Pooped off Portugal, Oct 05
Wild West in Porto Santo, Oct 05
Lyn's Cooker Rant, Dec 05
Crossing the line, Jan 06
Sail Boats of Salvador, Feb 06
Salvador Carnaval, Feb 06
Passage to Recife, Mar 06
Turtles in Trinidad, Jun 06
A Walk on the Wild Side, Oct 06
The Yoles of Martinique, Nov 06
The story of Andrew's cold, Feb 07
Petrolheads, Florida, Apr 07
Sailing up the Niagara Falls, Aug 07
Sentinel across the Rockies, Oct 07
Rockies Excursion, May 08
How not to catch fish, June 08
Another Sentinel, Aug 08

Lyn's Log

Setting off, Jan-June 2005
Jul-Dec 2005
Jan-June 2006
England, June-Aug 2006
Aug-Dec 2006
Jan-June 2007
Jul-Dec 2007
Jan-June 2008
Jul-Dec 2008
Jan-June 2009

Contacting us ...

For fear of spammers, we haven't put our regular email address on this site. If you'd like to contact us, go to the Yachting & Boating World forum and send a private message to AndrewB; or alternatively post an email to , though we check this mailbox only occasionally.