Photographs · 2006 – 2012

Gallery

Moonbeam, her crew and the places she carried them — from the Canaries to the Caribbean, across the Pacific to Australia and New Zealand.

Moonbeam

Moonbeam at anchor under a blue sky with washing drying on the guardrails — Moonbeam at anchor, red ensign flying

Moonbeam at anchor, portrait view — At anchor beside Silver Curl

Looking up the genoa, sail number K 9823 — Looking up the genoa — K 9823

Spinnaker flying, crew on the foredeck — Spinnaker up in light airs

Moonbeam hauled out in a boatyard — Hauled out for refit

Three crew relaxing in Moonbeam's cockpit under the bimini on passage — The Atlantic crossing — Tom, David and Colin in the cockpit

Sarah and Tom on the stern

Sarah reading in a bunk — Off watch

The crew

Colin in yellow oilskins in the cockpit under a grey sky — Colin, oilskins on, weather coming

Colin with hood up and lifejacket on — Colin, hood up and clipped on

Colin at a beach bar — Colin ashore

Sarah standing in the companionway looking out to sea on passage — Sarah keeping watch, mid-ocean

Sarah smiling in sunglasses at a bar — Sarah at Nelson's Dockyard, Antigua

Colin at a market stall with produce — Provisioning at the market

Tom sitting on the stern under the red ensign — Tom on the stern

Tom sitting in the dinghy on the davits — Tom in the dinghy

Tom on a hill above English Harbour — Tom above English Harbour

David reading on the stern seat at sea — David reading on the stern seat

David raising a glass of champagne in the cockpit at night — David — landfall champagne

A dorado landed on the side deck — Supper: a dorado on deck

The Atlantic & the Caribbean

Yachts moored in a marina under a grey sky — Las Palmas before the Atlantic crossing

A yacht with a red spinnaker on the open ocean — Company mid-Atlantic — a Clipper under spinnaker

The three-masted yacht Maltese Falcon at anchor — Maltese Falcon at anchor

English Harbour and Falmouth Harbour seen from Shirley Heights — English Harbour from Shirley Heights, Antigua

Sarah and David outside a brick building with blue shutters — Sarah and David at Nelson's Dockyard

Yachts anchored off a green hillside — At anchor in the Virgin Islands

Two yachts in turquoise water off a palm-fringed beach — Jost Van Dyke

Tony, Jo and Sarah on a beach by palm trees — Tony, Jo and Sarah

A man holding two lobsters on deck with Sarah beside him — Lobsters for dinner

A flock of seabirds over the water near a cruise boat — Seabirds, Galápagos

Gemma and Eloise on deck — Gemma and Eloise

Australia

Sarah, Gemma and Tom in front of the Sydney Opera House at sunset — Sarah, Gemma and Tom — Sydney Opera House at sunset

Colin on the bow pointing at Sydney Harbour Bridge — Colin arriving in Sydney Harbour

Sydney Harbour from the water — Sydney Harbour

Sydney Opera House — The Opera House

Three people by the Opera House — Circular Quay

Annabel and Tom on a deck overlooking vineyards — Annabel and Tom in the Hunter Valley

Tom at a winery — Wine tasting

Tom with a koala — Tom meets a koala

An emu at a zoo — An emu

Jacaranda trees in bloom by a creek — Jacaranda in bloom

Tropical botanical gardens — Botanic gardens

New Zealand & the Pacific

Steep mountains rising from a fiord — Fiordland, South Island

Wake behind a boat in a fiord — Milford Sound

A misty lake with mountains — A South Island lake

A glacier valley — Glacier country, West Coast

A town seen from the water — Nelson from the water

A white clock tower in a tropical garden — The clock tower at Levuka, Fiji