We're sailing upwind in about 11 knots, heading North to Catania on the East Coast of Sicily. The sun is shining and it's reasonably warm - things are good. This is Kincsem's second day of sailing t ...
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I estimate there are at least 100 boats here in the marina which call themselves "liveaboards". That means that they have - mostly - given up living on land and moved on their boats. Most of the ...
I'm sitting in the waiting room of the local gas plant in Ragusa. The objective is to have our French butane gas bottles - "les cubes" - filled. If successful, it would be a first outside France. ...
On October 23, the weather looked a little more manageable for our trip to Malta so we departed Sarande in a light Northerly breeze. First stop was Gouvia Marina on Corfu, to pick up a package that h ...
As we sailed up the Ionian islands to Corfu, our luck with the weather continued. Nice breezes, flat water, warm temps and swim stops were de rigeur. These waters are full of charter boats, even a ...
What a difference a week makes. Ever since the Admiral, Almut and Rainer departed and Rieke and Benno arrived, the weather has been "Admiral's weather"! Sunshine, warm, mellow breezes, not a swell o ...
Kincsem is at the dock here, waiting for the arrival of Rieke and Benno. The Admiral, Rainer and Almut departed a couple of days ago and I had a tight schedule. However, the key component of that sc ...
"Heli" means "eel" in Greek and the water here looks like it could harbor a bunch of those fishes, if one could only see them in the murky green. How did we get here of all places? Well, it's actual ...
Looking back at my log book, I can always tell quickly if we had the Meltimi blowing: minimal engine hours. The sails go up right after the anchor is lifted and go down right before the anchor goes ...
After the Mykonos experience, I’m now taking anchor bearings when it’s windy. It may seem old fashioned, but it saves electricity and it works. Island 32 was Denoussa, 20 miles South of Mykonos ...