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...
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...
The sailing world is infested with all kinds of myths and superstitions, especially around Friday the 13th. One is not allowed to leave on any sail on a Friday, and don’t you dare have banana’s on board. Needless to say...
Thursday The day of the big surprise! All we had to do was to get Dad into the marina restaurant by 10:30, easy. After having had no schedule for the last few days I think he was mildly surprised to be ushered off the...
Thursday and Friday On Thursday we spent the day tidying up the boat in anticipation of my Dad arriving tomorrow. We also collected our new gangplank which was exactly what we had hoped it would be, perfect! On Friday...
Wednesday Before setting off for Rhodes we had a coffee with our friend, got the boat ready and headed off just after 13:00. As predicted by the forecast the westerly wind picked up as we came out of the shadow of Symi...
Monday We decided last night to leave for Symi this morning. According to the forecast the first half of the sail would be windy (20/25 knots) but it’d die down as we passed south of the Turkish coastline. Our...
Friday One of the things we’ve learnt this season (taking advice from our friend Phil) is that it’s better to plan a sail before a strong wind is due rather than going the day after it dies down. We made that mistake on...
If there is one such thing as the sailing bible for the Med, it’s gotta be Rod Heikell’s cruising pilot. Pretty much every English speaking sailor in the Med has a copy of his books, and “What does Heikell say about...
We had originally planned to sail to our next destination, Astipalea, today. However after staring into the angry waves and getting our faces blown off by the wind yesterday we thought we maybe give the weather another...
Somewhat exhausted from the 10 hour sail the day before we set out to find some nice breakfast and check out the local town, Katapola. Katapola is sprinkled around a bay that makes a fantastic natural harbour, with a...
We both get itchy feet after being “on the hook” for a while. We definitely enjoyed hanging out in Paros, but it started to feel a bit like we were moving in, so we had to go. Today was the day: the winds looked good...
Monday After Cass arrived on Sunday night we kicked off our long overdue catch up sitting in a cocktail bar on the waterfront and watching the sunset (well, you do need to start as you mean to carry on!) For a while now...
Despite Friday apparently being a day on which nothing can happen we thought we’d make the most out of being near civilization and get some washing done. Also, you couldn’t move in the heads anymore due to the...
Thursday started as slow as a day can start. We both woke up, realised it was way too early, slept a few more hours, and woke up still groggy. A cup of coffee is usually enough to get us going, especially when it’s that...
