Well. I’m finally of the boat and spending the night in Cartagena. The last bit of the journey was peppered with variable winds and weather changes…
Heading across towards Cadiz and eventually anchored in Barbate, to prepare for the tides and tidal streams of the straits, and after an ‘interesting ride’ sighted…
Have covered a lot of miles since the last post, but feel a bit like those lyrics “We joined the Navy to see the world. And…
Left A Coruna while the weather was ok, and prepared for a long haul down the Spanish and then the Portuguese coasts. Had little or no…
Left Les Sables d’Olonne and arrived in Gijon after a truly challenging 2 days. The Bay of Biscay lived up to its conniving reputation of seduction…
Had a nice stroll around Les Sables d’Olonne yesterday … had a “promenade sur la plage” ( they actually have sand here, instead of the pebbles…
Next morning, had a whole Pad of Frogs come onboard to attempt to fix the problems which had occurred with the boat. A new mainsail (…
We departed Les Belles Isles fairly early as we knew it was a fairly long leg to Les Sables d’Olonne. Not a great deal of wind…
After the Raz, it was a fairly easy sail down to Loctudy … again, Liz and Rod had stopped there on the way to the UK…
After the rather uncomfortable and lumpy Channel crossing we ended up coming onto a mooring in Braye harbour Alderney. Liz and Rod had already been here…