Here is one thing that you might not know about sailing: sometimes, you are not sailing at all! Instead you are spending all day holed up in the bowels of your boat, praying to the weather gods to make the bloody wind...
Marina di Ragusa to Portopalo Distance: 35NMSunday 28th April. Departed 09:00, arrived 15:30 Our original plan was to sail around to Syracuse today, a journey of approximately 12 hours so we wanted to be up and out by...
For those of you who have been wondering about what’s going on with us, here is a quick recap of our story over the last few months. Originally, our plan was to take a year or two off and go sailing, get this whole...
I’m writing this update on a train half way between London and Hastings. “How did they end up in England?” I hear you ask. Frankly, we’re wondering the same thing because last time we checked we were in Sicily on the...
After breakfast on Sunday we picked up anchor for the last time and set off for Ragusa. We motored for an hour or two then had a very leisurely sail along the south coast. We’ve heard amazing things about Ragusa as a...
On Saturday morning we set off towards our last anchorage of the season, Portopalo, which is on the very south east corner of Sicily. As we left the confines of Syracuse we motored into a pretty hefty swell which soon...
Should we stay or should we go? That’s what we debated all morning. We did want to push on to Ragusa (our winter marina, 60NM/12 hours away) but after the day we had on Wednesday, and on checking the forecast (which...
When we anchored on Tuesday night in Naxos it looked like we’d be nicely protected behind the harbour wall. It wasn’t to be. A north westerly swell picked up and by 01:30 we were up on deck assessing our options, as...
Today was probably one of the strangest days we’ve had since we’ve left our home in Barcelona. I woke up early and stuck my head out of the main hatch, just to be reminded where we are: the bizarre city of “Reggio di...
Sunday was a really quiet day, the only thing we did in the afternoon was swim over to see the bubbling underwater rocks, which were really strange. They made the water look like it was boiling and even under the...
Our plan on Sunday was to hike up the volcano and visit the “Gran Cratere”. We were still at anchor on the west side of the northern part of the island, but now the wind and waves were rolling in so at 10:00...
Tom couldn’t sleep for most of the night and was out of bed at 04:00 reading about what to do with the engine. The ideal scenario has it rushed to the equivalent of engine A&E but given we’re anchored on a rather...
Excuse the lack of photos for this post – read on to find out what happened. 🙁 On Wednesday we had rather a late start, and in the afternoon walked into Lipari. We had a nice time walking around the old medieval...
On Tuesday morning we were up early, woken by the wind which had started to build. It was clear this wasn’t going to be a good anchorage to sit out the winds, so we decided to head over to Lipari. Up on deck we...
Rome to Ponza to the Sicilian Islands. We left Rome at 05:00 on Saturday morning and arrived on Ponza just as the sun was setting and dropped anchor in a huge (and very busy) bay a short dinghy ride to the town. After a...
