
Moon Shadow, Sigma 362, Plymouth
Design Sigma 362
Fast, comfortable and strong cruising yacht with a racing pedigree
15 Apr 2023 New log entry: Did I really do that? ↙ Report?
- Boat Moon Shadow
- By Paul Little
- Distance 6000.0 Nm
- Weather Mixed
I just noticed this function so this is a bit of a catch-up!
I left Plymouth (UK) on 29th July 2022 and arrived in Grenada on 1st March 2023.
In between I made a 4.5 day, 500nm passage across the bay of Biscay to the Spanish port of Gijon and from there day sailed all the way to Cadiz in southern Spain. Fortunately, I didn’t have any Orca entanglements! On the way I visited many places of interest: A Coruña, Muros, Baiona, Porto, Lisbon, Lagos and Culatra (Faro).
From Cadiz I made a six day, 800nm passage to the island of Lanzarote in the Canary Islands and also visited Fuertaventura and Gran Canaria. From there an eight day, 900nm passage brought me to the town of Mindelo in the Cape Verde Islands where I stayed for almost a month and from where I made an 18 day, 2200nm passage across the Atlantic Ocean to the island of Grenada in the Caribbean.
I had a couple of trips back to the UK during all that – firstly in August/September ’22 to have a hip replacement and again for Christmas ’22.
I had 3 crew with me across Biscay, 1 from A Coruña to Lisbon, 2 from Lisbon to the Canaries, 1 to Cape Verde and 3 for the Atlantic crossing.
20 Oct 2022 Crew wanted for Cruising, Mile building, Ocean / long distance

- Boat Moon Shadow
- What Cruising, Mile building, Ocean / long distance
- When Holidays (short-term), Long-term
- Dates from 9 Apr 2022
I’m looking for a female companion/crew to join me from June ’22 onwards, either short term or long term.
I am leaving from Plymouth bound for the Caribbean via Spain, Portugal, Morocco, Canary Islands and the Cape Verde Islands.
You can join me at any convenient port of call but it is your responsibility to get yourself to the boat and to return home afterwards. This will be a “shared costs” deal but I don’t lead an extravagant lifestyle so costs should be fairly small and I may be willing to consider contribution “in kind” – cooking for instance. Let me know what skills you have and we may be able to come to an arrangement.
I don’t mind about your nationality, the colour of your skin, your religion or any of that stuff as long as you have common sense, are reasonably physically fit, have a sense of humour and a willingness to get stuck in – these are more important to me than huge experience – of course, you should know your way around a boat and have at least a basic knowledge of what makes them go so RYA comp crew (or equivalent experience) would be useful.
If you contact me and expect a reply please tell me something about yourself and why you want to join me – one line emails will be ignored. Sorry to be blunt, but if you can’t make the effort to write a decent email I doubt you’ll put in the effort at sea!
I look forward to hearing from you.
Paul