Thursday 8 August 2013
It was a hazy day when we headed out of Tabarka, Tunisia, with the Tunisian Navy wishing us well on the radio. Destination Algeria, hard-won visa to hand. A destination not well travelled, a destination with a sad history of terrorism, a destination few have sailed to. The wind was up and the waters bumpy….
Tuesday 6 August 2013
Saturday night found us sitting in the yacht club in Marina Del Sole, Cagliari, Sardinia, awaiting the arrival of Steve Keenor. “Yacht club” being the name we had given it and more a term of endearment. It was really an aging marquee with a bar at the one end with associated knick-knacks (statues representing the…
Saturday 20 July 2013
So we’d had a good time in the Balearics, catching up with friends and living a holiday lifestyle. But it was time to leave these hedonistic islands and move on, our next destination being Sardinia, a 240NM (that’s nautical miles, which is approximately 444km) or roughly a 2 day sail away. The trick with crossings…
Wednesday 10 July 2013
Since acquiring Adina we had been troubled by noises coming from her rudder. It’s hard to replicate them via words but it sounds like this “urrrr, urrrr, crrrrr” The “urrrr” being fine and the sound of a hydraulic arm but the “crrr” that echoed up through our bed when sailing was not so fine. One…
Tuesday 9 July 2013
One of the things I found hard at the start of our trip was not working. I know that will seem strange to everyone back home, working away and wishing they weren’t. But I had got to a place where I loved my job and enjoyed the challenges, and we’re programmed to believe that is…
Wednesday 3 July 2013
Charlie and Nicola Beausire are friends with whom we have sailed since we started sailing, and have enjoyed much racing and cruising with over the years. We sailed across from Ibiza to Palma, anchoring for one night before settling into Marina Port de Mellorca to meet them. Port de Mallorca is probably the swankiest marina…
Saturday 29 June 2013
A wake-up call of 4:30am with a 5.00am departure for Ibiza after a late night is no easy thing. However, we were soon cheered up as some prankster played 5 minutes of chilled Ibiza music on channel 16 on the VHF. Ibiza was a 13 hour sail away and the wind was on the nose,…