Our Story

Having discovered the joy of sailing in 2010, we hatched a plan to find a boat that could take us on far away adventures.

After a long hunt for a sailing yacht that ticked most of the boxes, we found Joy berthed in Italy and it was love at first sight. After bringing her back to the UK, we set about prepping her to cross the Atlantic and beyond.

In April 2013 we left behind our families and friends and sailed out of Dover heading first for the Solent before crossing the English Channel and coast hopping down to the Med. This was our shake down cruise before joining the Atlantic Rally for Cruisers in Gran Canaria in November 2013, sailing to the Caribbean for Christmas in the sun.

“It Couldn’t be done”

by Edgar Albert Guest

Somebody said that it couldn’t be done
But he with a chuckle replied
That ‘maybe it couldn’t’, but he would be one
Who wouldn’t say so till he’d tried.
So he buckled right in with the trace of a grin
On his face. If he worried he hid it.
He started to sing as he tackled the thing
That couldn’t be done, and he did it!

Somebody scoffed: ‘Oh, you’ll never do that;
At least no one ever has done it.’
But he took off his coat and he took off his hat
And the first thing we knew he’d begun it.
With a lift of his chin and a bit of a grin,
Without any doubting or quiddit,
He started to sing as he tackled the thing
That couldn’t be done, and he did it.

There are thousands to tell you it cannot be done,
There are thousands to prophesy failure,
There are thousands to point out to you one by one,
The dangers that wait to assail you.
But just buckle in with a bit of a grin,
Just take off your coat and go to it;
Just start in to sing as you tackle the thing
That ‘cannot be done’, and you’ll do it.