Monday 23 September 2013
At 7:40am, Friday 20th September, we slipped lines, leaving Gibraltar bound for Las Palmas, Gran Canaria, a 708 nautical mile sail away that would take us 6-7 days. The Straits of Gibraltar make for interesting sailing with a constant west to east tide, and the headland of Tarifa where it blows more than 30 knots…
Tuesday 10 September 2013
The tracker hasn’t moved in a while! That’s because we’ve downed tools for a break. Actually, it’s a break from sailing but we’re working with lots of tools getting Adina ready for her sail down to the Canaries. After our trip along North Africa she had accumulated a lot of dirt so a deep clean…
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…