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...
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...
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”...
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...
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...
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...
We’ve a couple of old friends sign up over the last few of days … welcome aboard, it’s great to have you with us! Today started with a little dinghy excursion around the corner. There’s a Cala that’s apparently very...
We had a lovely peaceful, uneventful nights sleep and woke up feeling….oddly quite groggy. We’d left it a bit late to take the dinghy to the beach to do a workout as by now it was packed with day trippers, so instead we...
This morning, as predicted we were woken up at 2am by very strong northerly winds. We got up to check we were still in the same place (which we were) and took a look at the anchor chain. Looking in good shape (and...
