a family sailing blog
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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
Cruising through the Peloponnese has been fantastic fun. I think it's one of the nicest parts of Greece we have visited to date. It is well off the beaten track for sailors, which makes it super quiet. There are no charter yachts here – only live aboard cruisers. It is rugged and remote but... Continue Reading →
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