Our friends left on Wednesday and we stayed in Kini awaiting delivery of our part to fix the anchor windlass operation. As other yachts departed we tucked ourselves into a cove close to the beach. Dro ...
At sea
A bonus extra midweek blog this week as so much seems to have happened. We left the last blog heading for our first anchorage in Greece, sadly it got dark before we got there and as we needed an early ...
So, another blog another country. It really does feel like we have been in the fast lane since July. When we have stopped it's been pretty much full on boatwork and we are looking forward to the next ...
We headed off to Malta mid morning after yet another onboard inspection by 4 customs officers, they returned our sat phone which they had kept on our arrival. After around 20 mins on board they sudden ...
We were wondering how we would fill this weeks blog given we were expecting to be on the boat for at least 7 days, what would there be to mention? Quite alot actually it seems..... Apologies for the o ...
Our arrival at La Linea felt like a weight had been lifted as we were finally through the high risk Orca attack areas. News came in that a boat had been attacked in an area we had sailed through the d ...
We left Sines to the thumping music coming from the stage next to the beach, the party was still in full swing. Unfortunately it kept Amanda awake all night but we were on our way at first light so th ...
We had a great welcome into Nazare, both by the dolphins and the marina staff, what a lovely team they are. Their recommendation for a one day stopover to walk to the surf museum which is based at the ...
At long last the parts we needed to fix our winch arrived after a frustrating wait.... and weren't the correct ones. At least not all of them and we managed to get the winch sorted enough to use and a ...
After completing the main servicing jobs on board the tasks have turned to spending more time relaxing and planning what we need to do to depart on our travels south. We have had Nigels Mum and sist ...