a family sailing blog
We have just finished our second season in the Med and we have covered a bit of ground. It has been a wonderful, rewarding experience. We loved Greece, found Spain and the Balearics friendly and fun, Italy, Sardinia and Sicily were incredible, Corsica pretty and sophisticated, in short everywhere we have been has had its own... Continue Reading →
The last two years sailing have been a fantastic experience, we have seen so many cool places, met wonderful people and had a lot of fun. Doing it as a family means everything to me, having experiences that we will cherish as a family and hopefully setting up a strong bond with our children, while showing them... Continue Reading →
After leaving Venice we high tailed it back down to Greece, where Vega will be wintered. The weather in the northern Adriatic can become very stormy in September so we were keen to get south to avoid the worst of it. We covered 550nm in 2 weeks choosing to sail by day down the coast... Continue Reading →
The Bora is a northerly wind that blows from the mountain’s running parallel to Croatia’s coast. It spills out over the coastline and into the Adriatic from a northeasterly direction and with incredible force. We’ve been through a few Boras already, but this one was a doosy. Unlike the Meltemi in Greece, or the Tramontana... Continue Reading →
On these kind of trips you need a plan. If you don't then we find you can sometimes end up a little aimless. In croatia, we did get a little aimless for a while and Heather found it a bit troubling. Our original plan was to get up to Venice, but its a long... Continue Reading →
Croatia has 5 major national parks, but the one that seafarers head to is the Kornati NP. It is a chain of islands lying NE-SW about 15NM off Croatia’s coast. As with everything in Croatia you need to pay and for a yacht its 600Kuna (85 euros) for 3 nights or 900kuna for 5 nights... Continue Reading →
We decided to leave the Adriatic sea for a while and head 8NM up the KRKA river system to a little town called Skradin, and what a lovely change it was too. As you head up river from the port of Sibernik, an old fort town, the estuary slowly narrows into a tightly winding river... Continue Reading →
After a couple of days in Korcula town we were done with people and busy anchorages and the wind was perfect to head out to the island of Lastovo, so we went with the wind. The next week was island cruising and we swam and sailed, sailed and swam. We actually ended up giving the... Continue Reading →
With our first Croatian guests heading on to the Netherlands for the next leg of their European jaunt, the sun came out, and the wind dropped for a few days and with new guests, Damain and Helen on board we put some miles under our belt and headed towards north west Mljet to catch up... Continue Reading →
We arrived in Cavtat, the most southerly port of entry into Croatia. Antigone was the first of us to arrive and given the designated customs quay was full, anchored off and preceded to head ashore in the dinghy to go through the check in formalities. We arrived shortly after and dropped the hook not to... Continue Reading →
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