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update: 7th February 2006

Flopper Stopper
for reducing the effect of a heavy swell at anchor

Atlantic Crossing Menus
Meal Plan for a 3 week passage

Twelve Days of a Cruiser's Christmas
by Belinda Berry
Want to know what it's like to have Christmas onboard? This was published in The Compass, the Caribbean's Monthly Look at Sea and Shore. A bit of fun for the festive season.

2000 - 2001

03 Sep 2000 Passage to Gibraltar and haul out at Sheppard's

16 Sep 2000 Provisioning at Marina Bay, Gibraltar

30 Sep 2000 Passage from Gibraltar to Safi, Morocco

15 Oct 2000 From Safi to Puerto Calero, Lanzarote

19 Dec 2000 Atlantic Crossing from Gran Canaria to Grenada

25 Jan 2001 Cruising Grenada & the Grenadines

Grenada Photos from our island tour of Grenada

Trinidad Carnival and Cruising in Tobago, a series of pages

• Trinidad & Tobago 
• Carnival Overview 
• Pan & Calypso 
• Kings & Queens
• Play Mas - Parade of Bands
• Play Mas - Graham's selections
• Tobago Anchorages 

25 Apr 2001 Ste Anne & Marin, Martinique

Martinique Sunsets a page of beautiful sunset photos

08 May 2001 Cruising Dominica

May 2001 Les Saintes, Guadeloupe

May 2001 Passage South through the Windwards

June 2001 Turtle Watch in Trinidad

2001 Hurricane Season haulout in Trinidad and

a visit to the Asa Wright Nature Centre

2001 - 2002

Dec 2001 Xmas and New Year in Grenada

Jan 2002 Another visit to the Grenadines, featuring Bequia

Feb 2002 Carnival time in Martinique

Mar 2002 Cruising in the US Virgin Islands

Mar 2002 Passage from US Virgin Islands to Florida

Apr 2002 Intracoastal Waterway, Florida

May 2002 Florida to Beaufort, South Carolina and ICW to Virginia

2002 - 2003

Dec 2002 Passage from Virginia to Martinique

2002/2003 Windward Islands - Martinique to Grenada

2003 - 2004

Nov - Feb Grenada, the Grenadines, Chacachacare in Trinidad

2004 - 2005

Dec-Jan Trinidad to Antigua & Barbuda

Feb - March 2005 Antigua & Barbuda

with a side trip to St Kitts & Nevis

There will be no more adventures for us aboard Oasis - unless we go and visit Stephen and Hazel.... you can follow their adventures at www.yachtoasis.com

Pages re-organised

We have now fully transferred www.yachtoasis.com to Stephen and Hazel. It is going to be fun to follow their adventures.

This has meant a significant re-organisation of this site, and there were a few gltiches with the navigation, but hopefully that is all sorted now! These pages are now resident on our website www.gnomeworks.co.uk, which hosts a number of our new projects.

We have also launched a series of workshops in digital photography - Graham has often been asked to show people how to use their cameras, and enjoys sharing his knowledge and awakening the creative person within, so this is a natural progression. These residential courses will be aimed at beginners and improvers to start with. Belinda will put her software skills to good use, helping demonstrate techniques of image processing, as well as using her culinary flair, turningthe best of local produce into delicious meals.

Oasis Specs

This Tayana 37 has an unusual layout with a pullman berth.

It is ideal as a two person live aboard boat.

See the full specs

Holiday Homes and Property for Sale in South West France

One of our recent ventures is to put our photography and web design skills to good use in helping owners to market holiday properties and properties for sale in our Quercy region of South West France. Please visit our website www.quercyhomes.com

About these pages

These journal pages are the record of our time on Oasis from our preparations for our second Atlantic Crossing in late 2000 until March 2005. They cover many different aspects of the cruising lifestyle. We hope you will find them informative, useful, entertaining, inspiring and encouraging.

Our original Atlantic Crossing was made from Myrtle Beach Yacht Club, South Carolina, via Bermuda and the Azores to Tollesbury, England, between May and July 1995. We made a movie of this passage.

In 1998 we sailed Oasis from Tollesbury via Plymouth and Cadiz to Puerto de la Duquesa in southern Spain.

From December 2000 to March 2005 we cruised extensively in the Windward and Leeward Islands, and made a passage from the Virgin Islands to Florida and on to the Chesapeake, before returning to the Caribbean by a direct route from Virginia to Martinique.

Look out for 'A Cook's Crossing' (working title), which will be published soon. This is the story of our westbound Atlantic Crossing.

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Come to our idyllic property in beautiful rolling countryside in the department of Lot. 

3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, fully equipped kitchen, comfortably furnished with a beautiful 11 x 7  metre swimming pool. 

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