About us
Barry Rice.
I sailed out of England in spring of 1977 having spent 10 years as a marketing engineer for Southern Gas. This, just a year after spending a week at a dinghy sailing course to learn ‘how to sail’ and a weekly evening Ocean Navigation college course through the winter.
The plan was simple. Spend the summer in the Mediterreanan, cross the Atlantic to the Caribbean for the winter months and then back to England. The yacht was also simple, a 32′ Nicholson with a 10 hp single cylinder diesel and a sextant for navigation. No radio or means to communicate with the outside world, 20 gals of fuel and 70 gals of water. No refrigeration or other modern convenience except a radio cassette player (remember those?) that had a SW band where we could listen to BBC world and Voice of America. This took us 28 amazing days and we arrived at English Harbour in Antigua on Christmas Eve. In the New Year we explored the islands all the way to Trinidad in time for Carnival on a path of discovery that slowly erased all thoughts of returning to England.
Our first crewed charter yacht was a Gulf Star 50 working out of St Lucia…… Buy me dinner when you visit Tortola and I can bore you all evening!
Rosalind Rice.
Roz and I have been married for almost 40 years. When we met she was a staff nurse in a London hospital having just graduated as a Bachelor of Nursing for Manchester University. By the time we left on our ‘sabbatical’ she had moved into the community where she ran baby clinics, visited the young and elderly for home counselling and all the other duties of a health Visitor.
