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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 LogItaly

Fri 27 Jul and Sat 28 Jul

On Friday we spent most of the day catching up on admin, preparing the newsletter and doing some savvy navvy work. Our crappy internet connection turned what should have taken a few hours into practically the whole day...

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Captain's LogItaly

Mon 23 Jul to Thu 26 Jul

Monday 23 The beach on La Pelosa is rumoured to be one of the most beautiful in Sardinia (or in the world as the local tourism board claims!) so we caught the bus in the morning to go and see for ourselves. It was...

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Captain's LogItaly

Sat 21 Jul and Sun 22 Jul

Saturday was absolutely roasting hot and without a breeze the boat was pretty unbearable. It gave us the perfect excuse to walk into the village and find a restaurant for a nice long lunch. The place Cass found was...

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Captain's LogItaly

Fri 20 Jul

This morning we were all up relatively early and settled in the cockpit for breakfast. Our plan was to leave Alghero’s town quay for Porto Conte at around 11am, which was cut slightly short by the arrival of a...

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Captain's LogItaly

Thu 19 Jul

When I went to bed last night for some reason I thought it’d be a great idea to set the alarm for 06:45 and do a couple of runs to fill up the water jugs. We’re moored up on the busy town quay and during the day lots of...

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Captain's LogItaly

Wed 18 Jul

When we woke up this morning the first thing we started discussing were strategies for how to release the anchor from its perfectly anchor-shaped rocky hole. Who said romance is dead? After a cup of tea we donned...

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Captain's LogItaly

Tue 17 Jul

Our night of doing anchor watch shifts ended at 05:00 as the wind dropped and the splice held, so we finally managed to get some sleep, interrupted only briefly when the voltage alarm for the batteries went off. First...

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Captain's LogItaly

Mon 16 Jul

This morning the wind picked up almost exactly at 08:00 as predicted. We were sitting well, the anchor was holding and we weren’t moving. We made ourselves a biiiiig post-passage breakfast (any excuse!) and sat on deck...

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Captain's LogSpain

Sat 14 Jul and Sun 15 Jul

We got up early to get the boat ready to head over to Sardinia. On deck this involves stowing the dinghy, taking off the sail cover, connecting the halyard and taking the covers off the instruments. In the cabin it’s...

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Captain's LogSpain

Fri 13 Jul

Today we had a nice relaxing day in Fornells. It’s a lovely deep bay where you can anchor or pick up a mooring ball. My rather pessimistic side leads me to believe they’re more of a money making scheme rather than their...

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Captain's LogSpain

Wed 11 Jul and Thu 12 Jul

The day before a big passage (big is relative here – big for us at least) is always a bit funky. We can’t really relax, nor can we start any bigger projects. It’s a bit what a friend calls “taxi time”...

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Captain's LogSpain

Mon 9 Jul

Today started off ridiculously early. We’ve been looking into alternatives to the traditional pyrotechnic flares (the type which killed Billy Zane in Dead Calm), mainly because having explosives on boats is increasingly...

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Captain's LogSpain

Fri 6 Jul and Sat 7 Jul

On Friday morning we set off at 11am towards Roses (northern Barcelona, near the French boarder) for the wedding. We had contemplated sailing the boat up on Thursday but with very little wind we were faced with a 15...

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Captain's LogSpain

Thu 5 Jul

One of the nice things about having a basecamp is that we have a postal address, which allows us to have things delivered. It’s both a blessing and a curse though as it becomes all too easy to buy stuff, our favourite...

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Captain's LogSpain

Wed 4 Jul

Another day in the marina, another day of fixing the boat! As you might remember, we installed a new pump yesterday that should in theory be able to pump whatever is in the waste water tank over board. Well, after...

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Captain's LogSpain

Tue 3 Jul

People say “Cruising is just fixing boats in exotic places”, and I can definitely see why. This was our first day in the marina, and we spend most of the day plowing through our todo list. The biggest thing for today...

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Captain's LogSpain

Mon 2 Jul

On the cards today was some serious boat cleaning (there are layers of salt everywhere) plus a few repairs. The day started with trying to understand what was causing the jib not to furl away. We thought we’d lower it...

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Captain's LogSpain

Sat 30 June and Sun 1 Jul

On Saturday we sailed back to Barcelona from Andraxt, which is on the south west corner of Mallorca. We’d had a lovely calm night on our mooring ball but I didn’t sleep too well, I’m always a bit restless before a long...

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Captain's LogSpain

Fri 29 Jun

Today we allowed ourselves a lazy day in preparation for our passage back to Badalona tomorrow. After a late night we had a bit of a lie in, had breakfast on the boat and then headed ashore for some much needed showers...

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Captain's LogSpain

Wed 27 Jun and Thu 28 Jun

Whilst we were in the bay of Cala Nova, which is busy as it’s part of the main tourist track of Mallorca, we thought we might as well make use of the numerous bars with free internet and work on savvy navvy for a...

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Captain's LogSpain

Mon 25 Jun and Tue 26 Jun

Monday we decided to spend the day in Cala Caragon. In the absence of decent cellular coverage the morning consisted of messing around with the GoPro – oh the joys of unemployment 😉 We’d been trying to feed a...

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Captain's LogSpain

Sun 24 Jun

Considering we’d had quite a full-on day yesterday we were surprised to be wide awake at 0800. We took the dinghy ashore in search of just a little more water for the tanks, and a coffee. We walked up the beach and came...

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Captain's LogSpain

Sat 23 Jun

Wow, what a day. I woke up at 3am, waiting for the alarm to go off which was set for 5:30. Yes, you read that right – 5:30! We had a 50 miles passage to Mallorca ahead of us, and figured it would take us roughly...

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Captain's LogSpain

Fri 22 Jun

One of the challenges of living on a sailboat is: How to stay fit? We don’t have a lot of space, and weight is an issue too (our own, as well as having a limit on the stuff we can bring 😉 ) so we can’t carry any...

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