Cam & Tom's Sailing Blog

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...

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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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