One month to get there, 3 hours to get back
Day 22 Day 32 One month to get there, 3 hours to get back Here are my favourite photos of the trip. It is difficult to pick my favourite as they all represent highlights of different aspects. It was a real privilege to be able to travel during the pandemic. Living on a yacht is […]
The Day Before
Day 22 Day 31 The day before ….. I slept until 9:30am and awoke to whatsapp messages from Sue wondering what had hapened to me. Ugh…. sleep Marco noticed that the cafe at the top of the ramp was doing a full English.. well why not, we had already had a curry so why not have […]
Sailing With wind
Day 22 Day 31 A day trip Viv and Lukas were leaving at 9am. They had managed to get a lift share on a ride sharing app. Their lift would pick them up at the marina dn take them all the way to their van at La Coruña airport. This was an absolute result for […]
Final Destination
Day 22 Day 30 Final Destination Lagos After 3 hours sleep we got up for the next shift. Virtually nothing happened, so we did sudoku and glanced at the vague horizon occasionally. Back to bed at 6am and then up 7 for the sunrise, which was OK, but nothing special. I keep remembering L’Aber Wrach. […]
Laredo to Viveiro – Day 1
Day 17 Laredo to Viveiro – Day 1 Two kingfishers on the pontoon next to us. As the marina was quite empty, I got onto the pontoons to get some good shots of the boat, uninterrupted by any other boats. Does that count as going on shore?As I wasn’t going ashore Marco had to do […]
La Rochelle to Laredo – Day Two
Day 16 España La Rochelle to Laredo – Day Two The wind finally gave up just past midnight. By now the motor and autopilot had been on for a while. The sails were just flapping now, as we rolled along through the waves so we furled them up. We still hadn’t seen a single boat or […]
La Rochelle to Laredo – Day one
Day 15 La Rochelle to Laredo – Day one So, this is probably the longest sail so far, and only the two of us. Understandably there are concerns from our families about it, but this length of trip makes sense to me. We have waited out the weather, and the wind for the next week is […]
La Rochelle – lay over Day 2
Day 14 La Rochelle – lay over Day 2 Day 14 Chloe’s train was leaving around 11:30. We were going to have to walk there in these days of COVID. Her suitcase was about the size and weight of her! It had been repacked a couple of times and she was ready to go. We […]
La Rochelle – Layover 1st Day
Day 13 La Rochelle – Layover 1st Day After that 30 hour sail, I slept straight through to 7:30. Quite unusual for me. Dawn was , yet again, pretty fiery. I had to go for a little walk to the chemists (details available on request, but honestly you don’t want to know!) This is […]
Cherbourg to Roscoff – day 2
Day 3 Cherbourg to Roscoff – Day 2 This was my first night sail for a very, very long time. We all stayed up to a reasonable time with people resting as we went, Chloe took the helm for quite a while in the evening. The boat cockpit is very roomy and so there is […]