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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
