Rusalka Mist - Long Distance Sail-boat

The world seen from the deck of a 28 ft. cruiser.

Home at last!

With 8558 nautical miles behind her in the last 12 months, Rusalka Mist, our 28-ft cutter, is back in her home port of St Helier, Jersey. We left our home in Jersey, UK, in June 1999 and sailed her to the Caribbean via Spain, Portugal, the Canaries. We crossed over to Barbados during Christmas and the Millennium New Year. After some difficult weather in the North Atlantic on the way back via the Azores, we came through the pierheads on the 29th June 2000. Family and friends had put on a wonderful, emotional and noisy welcome from a boat which came out to meet us, from the pierhead and finally on the pontoon.

The whole adventure has taken us through calms and gales, from new friends to beautiful reunions, across seas and oceans from an unbelievable blue to a cold, steely grey.

On this web-site you can read about how we fitted out the boat for such a cruise (see About Us: Rusalka and Preparations: The Boat). You can also find information about us and how we prepared ourselves to leave for this life afloat (see About Us: Nigel, About Us: Nicky and Preparations: Us).

The main part of the site however is the stories of our travels. These are detailed in the Cruise Logs section on the menu to the left. The most recent are at the top. Be sure to check out the story of our first, short ocean passage (Crossing Biscay - 1999) and our Atlantic crossing (Atlantic East-West). The most recent stories are in the Caribbean 2000 section (Barbados, Caribbean Cruising 1) and, most recently, Caribbean Cruising 2).

We are proud to present the beginnings of a women's section where Nicky outlines the female slant on the whole business.

This site has had a partial 'makeover' during 2003, but the content is largely unchanged since we returned from the Atlantic trip in 2000. The reason for the lack of updates is that in all honesty we haven't done much sailing since we got back for one reason and another.