And I would walk...

...one thousand miles. And I would sail one thousand more.

It is a momentous occasion. We have reached the thousand mile mark and probably the equivalent of over 250 sailing hours, including night passages, mishaps and breakages.

To give us our credit where credit is due. From two completely ignorant sailors back in January 2012 who had never sailed alone together, we have now clocked over a 1000 miles in this little vessel. It was rather a nostalgic moment as we set out from Vieques to St Martin sans working engine.

Ironically the passage between Vieques to St Martin represented 25% of the entire distance we had sailed to date. Of course our next large mark will be the 10 000 miler. We may even celebrate that one with a bottle of champagne rather than as we did the 1000 mile mark with a kiss on the cheek and a celebratory slap on the arse.

Within those 1000 miles we have seen 13 different countries with no single one being a dead favourite and a most difficult question to answer when asked.

We write this as we sit in St Martin awaiting our gearbox repair, hurricane season officially began over 2 weeks ago, the winds have certainly strengthened somewhat. We are now aiming to dash back down to Grenada but will most certainly be stopping along the way to revisit some of the places that left an impression on us first time round.

Here's to the next 1000 miles on Orion...