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Season 4, already back on dry land

My mother-in-law said to us recently, “You’re having a bit of a bumpy start to the season aren’t you”. She’s not wrong, and this week it got even more interesting. Last Friday we finally collected the boxes from...

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Captain's Log Spain

Two weeks in Ibiza

Greetings from Ibiza where the weather is glorious! Actually, it’s not. I think London and Leipzig have seen more sun in the last few weeks than we have in Spain! The latest downpour has just let up leaving behind a...

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The long awaited season 3!

Its been about three years since the picture below was taken. We were looking sad in the photo because it was going to be another 6 months before Bini was supposed to go back in the water. Instead it turned out to be...

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Captain's Log Transatlantic

Transatlantic sail from Iceland to Canada on an 82ft Grand Mistral

In September 2022 we sailed 2,000NM from Reykjavík in Iceland to St John’s in Newfoundland, Canada on an 82ft Grand Mistral owned by Spartan Ocean Racing. We knew crossing the North Atlantic on an enormous race...

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And then COVID happened

Can’t believe it’s been almost 2 years since we last posted an update here on our blog, and what an utterly bizarre and unpredictable 2 years it’s been. Let’s go back a bit. On the 14th October...

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Thu 19 Sep to Sun 22 Sep – Arriving in Turkey

Thursday It took us ages to un-do the various lines, springs and ad-hoc rigging arrangements we’d set up to cope with the dreadful swell, but once Bob was back on deck we were on our way to Marmaris! Greece had been...

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Wed 18 Sep – Checking out of Greece

Today was to be our last day in Greece so we had to go through all the formalities to officially check out of the EU. Facebook, despite it’ shortcomings is an invaluable tool when it comes to finding out how to do these...

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Mon 16 Sep and Tue 17 Sep – Job interviews in Munich

Alright. We’ve had our fair share of rocky anchorages over the last year of cruising. But this – this was something else. Bini was still moored “safely” in Rhodes Marina. The marina is actually quite nice...

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