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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...

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Category - Captain’s Log

Captain's LogFrance

Sat 25 Aug

Our day began at 03:00 when we awoke to find ourselves tumbling around in a washing machine. This time we couldn’t just up and leave as we were holed-up waiting for the Mistral winds to arrive later today, so somehow we...

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Captain's LogFrance

Fri 24 Aug

Today started like the proverbial calm before the storm. There are some crazy winds forecast for tomorrow, so we decided to use the calm of the morning to do a beach workout. We’d read in the pilot book that there...

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Captain's LogFrance

Thu 23 Aug

Although wide open bays have their advantages their one major disadvantage is that they’re prone to swell rolling in – and that’s exactly what happened last night. Now it’s fine if the boat sits directly into the...

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Captain's LogFrance

Wed 22 Aug

Yesterday we set off at 11:00 and because there was no wind it got uncomfortably hot, so this morning to opted to leave earlier. By 06:30 we were on our way to Calvi, which (like yesterday) was about a 6 hour trip. The...

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Captain's LogFrance

Tue 21 Aug

Still in the grip of paddleboard fever poor old Bob was relegated this morning and had to stay behind as we opted to take the boards ashore for our workout. Tom was brave enough to travel fully dressed in shorts and t...

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Captain's LogFrance

Mon 20 Aug

After having spent far longer in Sardinia than we’d planned (time just flew!) we’ve set ourselves roughly a week to sail Corsica. We’ve found three or four nice anchorages along the west coast so we’ll work our way up...

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Captain's LogFrance

Sun 19 Aug

We woke up this morning desperate to give the paddleboards a first proper try out. If we do say so ourselves, we were surprisingly pretty good. We put this down to the fact our balancing skills have been honed through...

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Captain's LogFranceItaly

Fri 17 Aug and Sat 18 Aug

Today was to be our last in Sardinia. We were planning originally on being here for a few weeks, but we enjoyed it so much it’s been closer to five! It was a quiet, uneventful day. In the morning we went to fill...

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Captain's LogItaly

Thu 16 Aug

Today was the big day – my eagerly awaited paddleboard should finally show up. I’ve been hitting “refresh” on the TNT tracking page for days now, I literally couldn’t wait to get my hands...

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Captain's LogItaly

Wed 15 Aug

The first order of business (after a latte and cornetti in our favourite coffee place) was a shopping run. Now that we’re in the swing of things we usually buy more or less the same stuff, and the question...

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Captain's LogItaly

Tue 14 Aug

Today we made the best use of the fact that we’re still moored up on a pontoon and not rocking around, plus having precious 4G! There’s a long list of things that we wanted to get cranking on for savvy...

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Captain's LogItaly

Mon 13 Aug

We wanted to take advantage of being moored alongside the town quay to do our engine service. It can get pretty messy so having the boat as stable as possible is a huge advantage. First order of business was to go to...

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Captain's LogItaly

Sat 11 Aug and Sun 12 Aug

Saturday was a pretty quiet day, we got through some admin and sat out the Mistral winds whilst watching the super yachts in Cala de Volpi. On Sunday morning we did a workout on the beach then got Bini ready to sail to...

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Captain's LogItaly

Fri 10 Aug

The weather forecast showed signs of a strong westerly Mistral wind building today then blowing through tomorrow and into Sunday. Where we were in La Maddalena was open to the west so we headed around the east side of...

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Captain's LogItaly

Thu 9 Aug

Having gone from never having done a single pull-up to doing significantly more than that, my shoulder is not happy. It’s worse in the mornings, but on the plus side it means I’m straight out of bed when I wake up so...

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Captain's LogItaly

Tue 7 Aug and Wed 8 Aug

Tuesday was a pretty quiet day. We stayed anchored in the bay next to Palau (off La Sciumara beach), went shopping in the morning and swam in the afternoon. We contemplated getting more water but what we’d filled up...

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Captain's LogItaly

Mon 6 Aug

After a good night sleep we got up and did a workout on a tiny beach on one of the rocky islands nearby. The sky was overcast and we were so grateful for the shade. Back on the boat we had breakfast and decided to head...

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Captain's LogItaly

Sun 5 Aug

We had a surprisingly decent nights sleep as the violent rocking subsided when the motor yachts all went in for the night. It wasn’t to last however as by 09:00 we were swinging rail-to-rail again. Time to go! We picked...

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Captain's LogItaly

Sat 4 Aug

This morning we set off at 10:00 for Palau which is on the north east coast of Sardinia, just opposite the Islands of La Maddalena. We’ve bought a 7 day permit to the national park starting on Sunday so we wanted to get...

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Captain's LogItaly

Fri 3 Aug

Having been up early to do a workout on Thursday (our first in months) we were clearly on a roll so we dragged our aching bodies off the boat in search of a suitable spot. I saw what I thought was a little patch of...

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Captain's LogItaly

Thu 2 Aug

Today must have been one of the hottest days of the year. Either that or I’m hitting my menopause. I woke up at 5am being taunted by a mosquito that somehow managed to escape our very rigorous debugging routine. I...

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Captain's LogItaly

Wed 1 Aug

Sometimes I just wake up in the morning and I feel like I have to move my body. I guess being in the confines of the boat all the time just makes you want to move. We decided to make use of this energy and rowed to the...

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Captain's LogItaly

Tue 31 Jul

After spending a few days at anchor we were both itching to get some sailing done. The forecast didn’t look very promising (not much wind), but we set out anyway. Just as I was about to settle in for the motor out...

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Captain's LogItaly

Sun 29 Jul and Mon 30 Jul

We’ve had a lovely couple of friend-filled days in La Pelosa because by chance, two of our longest friends are in Sardinia with their families. Yesterday we met with Jorgen and Debora and today we had lunch (in the same...

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