Thursday 3 October 2013
Attempt two of our sail from Gibraltar to Las Palmas is about to commence – we plan to set sail Friday morning, October 4th. We now have a new gearbox installed, however the engineers who removed it unfortunately damaged our stern gland so now we have a new one of those too! That and they…
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,…
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…
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…