Hello everybody.

There is not a log page for July as Pat has gone home to the UK and Mike is still in Trinidad. We stayed in Grenada until the World Cup final (what a letdown) then sailed back to Trinidad. We spent the next fortnight preparing for Pat’s departure and Mike readied the boat for all the major work he is going to do while she is away! He intends to build in two new water tanks and re-insulate the freezer.

We did manage to revisit Matura beach and were lucky enough to see some of the baby turtles this time as they began their perilous journey away from their birthplace. They live, alone, in the ocean and the females only return to lay eggs when they reach 30 years of age. The males never return to land. Only 1 in 800 survive to reach maturity. Let’s hope that one of ours is the lucky one! There is a small photo gallery below. We weren’t able to take any movies, unfortunately.

Pat will be at home until the second week in October so there will not be an update until the beginning of November. Mike will have plenty to report, that’s for sure.

Cheers,

Pat and Mike.

Welcome to the voyage of El Lobo.

We are Mike Perrin and Pat Whittaker from Sunderland, UK, We hope  to spend the next few years travelling the globe. Mike has done a lot of sailing and Pat hopes she will be more experienced on their return!

We have refurbished this grand old lady, El Lobo, and began our journey on 1st April 2007. She is a 39 ft Samson C-Bird Ferro cement junk-rigged schooner which was built in 1971. She has already been to the Caribbean and the Mediterranean and Baltic with her previous owner. We hope to have as many grand adventures.

Friends and colleagues are welcome to browse these pages and we hope to keep everyone updated as the voyage progresses. If you want to drop us a line we would love to hear from you.  Just use the links below. You can either e-mail us (via Outlook Express) individually or sign our guest book and share your comments with everyone. We may not be able to reply at once while we’re at sea but will be looking forward to reading all your news as we reach our various landfalls.