Thursday 20 June 2013
The Guardemar marina we were staying in leads out to a small river before heading out to the sea. We were heading out at 6.30 am and knew from our arrival that it’s shallow. Very, very shallow. The depth sounder was showing 10cm below the keel when we entered and you needed to follow the red and…
Wednesday 12 June 2013
Just over a year ago our friends Stefano and Sophia announced their engagement. Stefano hails from Milan while Sophia is Moroccan. Over dinner at their flat in London they mentioned they were thinking of have a service in Italy and a reception in Marrakech. We like a bit of travel and adventure and there was…
Friday 7 June 2013
When we last left off, we were stuck in Gibraltar compliments of TNT Express who had failed to deliver our new depth sounder on the due Friday. It was now a long weekend. You would think TNT Express is a large global company handling daily international deliveries, and would be a 24×7 operation. All a…
Saturday 25 May 2013
Complaints of “tracker not on”, “no blogs” … It’s time to catch up! Our last blog had us on the border of Portugal and Spain in Vila Real San Antonio at the bottom of the River Guadiana, having just dropped off Susie’s parents. Sailing in the Solent we are sort of used to strong tidal…
Monday 13 May 2013
Just a little post to record the sad loss of a friend Marnie Heim who passed away on 12th May. I knew Marnie at university and after that while doing my accounting articles. She was always a positive happy person who unselfishly enjoyed nothing more than making others happy. We’re dedicating our sail to Gibraltar…
Friday 10 May 2013
Post our crossing of Biscay, we settled into Bayona, Spain for two days. It was just the perfect start for our adventure, being set in beautiful surroundings with green hills, a castle, and blue, blue skies. The weather was warm and we enjoyed a day off the boat sightseeing and indulging in a few tapas!…
Saturday 27 April 2013
We had been waiting in Falmouth for two and a half weeks for a weather window to cross The Bay of Biscay to Spain. People were asking “Are you still in Falmouth?”. Tom was starting to get a little narked, it was time to get that tracker fired up… So on Friday 19th April at 0640, Adina…