The Crew of Antigone and Vega decided a day of shore leave was required and we decided to head off into the Montenegrin mountains on a rafting trip on the Tara River. The Tara river forms (in part) the border between Montenegro and Bosnia and aparently runs through the deepest gorge in Europe. It was... Continue Reading →
Kotor, Montenegro
As you arrive into Montenegro by yacht, you are treated to a spectacular site. Steep, green mountains give way to rocky peaks that rise to 2000m straight out of the sea. It’s a bit like being on a yacht, right in the middle of the Alps and after the flat, low lying Italian coast it was... Continue Reading →
Passage to Montenegro
We left Monopoly in Italy bound for Montenegro, a small county wedged between Croatia, Algeria, Serbia and Bosnia Hertzegovina. The passage was 120NM and took us 23 hours. The wind was mainly light and just forward of the beam allowing us to sail straight for Montenegro at about 4 knots. Around midday the wind got really... Continue Reading →
Otranto Festival
It just so happened that there was a festival on in Otranto on our last night there. Summer is in the air and everyone was out late into the night listening to traditional music from the Salento region of Italy. The kids were the early entertainment highlight with them congo dancing and waltzing around the... Continue Reading →
Refugees
The morning after arriving in Italy we woke and it was still blowing hard. The coast guard appeared in a high-speed rib, full of bedraggled looking figures wrapped in foil survival blankets. Yoannia (from Calyxia) and I walked over to see what was going on. They were refugees, I have read a lot about the... Continue Reading →
Buongiorno Boys.
We left Ericoussa, an island north of Corfu, at 9pm and headed out towards Otranto in Italy. The wind was due to steadily build, and it did, from the north west. As we were heading north west this meant that once again we were beating into a steadily building breeze. At midnight... Continue Reading →
Passing through the Ionian Sea
Since we left the Peloponnese and headed into the Ionian sea things have been busy, and have not really gone to plan. Our sail from Pilos to Zakinthos was not as expected. The forecast promised F4 on the beam, but instead delivered flat calms for the first 20NM followed by a F6 close reach for... Continue Reading →