My 2021 Cruising Plan Atlantic Circuit shows us arriving in La Rochelle on August 5 and viola, here we are, on time! Like the German Bundesbahn, not like Amtrak! You'd think it was easy but it wasn' ...
2021 Atlantic Circuit
We are 1 1/2 days out of Ponta Delgada and are well on our way to La Rochelle, some 1,000 miles away. Mora and JM arrived on Tuesday evening from Horta by plane. Kerry and I had an appointment to ...
We should be in Horta on the island of Fayal now but we're not. It's a bit tricky to stick to a time table with Covid restrictions. We've been here in Sao Miguel since July 21. We had a great sail ...
We arrived here in Vila do Porto harbor at 1 am in the morning local time on the 18th. The last two days from Madeira were again a mixture of motoring and light air sailing. Our "cruising plan" call ...
We are 2 days out from Madeira and still have at least a day to go before we reach the first of the Azores, the small island of Santa Maria. We just finished a great chicken dinner with everyone sitt ...
When I downloaded the GFS grib for the next 5 days in the evening of July 6, it was similar to the gribs on prior days: it showed Westerly winds from 10-15 knots, slowly shifting to the North-Northeas ...
Approaching Gibraltar under Parasailor We're at anchor here at La Linea, just to the North of the runway of the Gibraltar airport. It's been a busy few days, but I'm getting ahead of myself. The t ...
It turns out I was unduly worried about the forestay. On Monday morning, as promised, 2 professional sailors appeared who took down the forestay and disassembled it in no time. It was obvious that t ...
Being vaccinated is like the get out of jail for free card in Monopoly: I could actually travel back to the boat in Vigo, Spain, without a test, without quarantine. When I arrived, Kincsem was alrea ...