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Panama Canal Transit
Panama Canal Transit 01 April - 08 April, Marina Zar Par, Dominican Republic to Marina Shelter Bay, Panama 13 April, Shelter Bay Marina to Gatun Lake 14 April, Gatun Lake to La Playita anchorage 14 April - 16 April, La Playita anchorage The passage from...
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French Polynesia
French Polynesia 2014 17th May - 6th June, San Cristobal, Galapagos to Atuona, Hiva Oa, Marquesas Islands 6th - 12th June, anchored Atuona 12th June, Atuona to Baie Hanamonenoa, Tahuata 12th - 16th June, Anchored Baie Hanamoenoa 16th - 17th June, Baie...
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Samoa
18 – 30 August 2014, Bora Bora to Apia, Samoa 30 August – 17 September 2014, Apia, Samoa, anchored in Apia Bay then in Apia Marina 1 arrived in Samoa on Saturday 30th of August after a not particularly fun passage. All weathers except (happily) gale or...
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Galapagos
30 April - 17 May Wreck Bay, San Cristobal, Galapagos The trip from the Las Perlas islands to the Galapagos was rotten. It took eleven days with light winds and adverse currents and birds which shat on my boat and permanently stained the spray hood. Nuff...
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The Happy Return
16th - 17th July, Lagos – Puerto America, Cadiz, Spain 18th - 19th July, Cadiz – Cadiz (abortive attempt to go to Gibraltar) 20th July, Puerto America, Cadiz 21st July, Cadiz – Chipiona 22nd July, Chipiona – Puerto Sherry 23rd July, Puerto Sherry – Barbate...
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Antigua to Bermuda
6th- 13th May , Antigua – St. Georges, Bermuda 14th - 21st May, St. Georges Bermuda, anchored in Powder Hole I left English Harbour in Antigua at about 10h30. Not a lot of wind. I ended up motoring until the morning of the 7th. I was motoring up the west...
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South Africa
Despite the big pussy cats and the stripy donkeys and the warm welcome of the South Africans, I was happy to leave South Africa. I was not sorry I came, but the weather is wearing, the sailing isn't fun and the bureaucracy would make Franz Kafka applaud...
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Azores
Faial You need to tie up at the visitors wharf to do the entry formalities for Faial. Just to get there, I needed to zig-zag between the anchored boats. The visitors wharf had no space whatsoever but somebody on a big cat offered to take my lines so I...
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Rewind
19/09/13 - 20/09/13, Almerimar to La Linea, Spain 20/09/13 - 04/10/13, Marina Alcaides, La Linea 04/10/13 - 09/10/13, La Linea to Puerto Calero, Lanzarote, Canary Islands 09/10/13 - 14/12/13, Canary Islands 14/12/13 - 05/01/14, Santa Cruz de Tenerife...
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Fiji
22 September – 13 October 2014, Savusavu Fiji, on Copra Shed Marina mooring I feel embarrassed writing this blog. I did nothing in Fiji except lay around on the boat; eat in the excellent Indian restaurants of Savusavu, drink cheap Fijian beer in the...
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Dominican Republic
23rd March - 1st April, Marina Zar Par, Dominican Republic I arrived at Marina Zar Par at around midday on Sunday. The approach was relatively simple in the end but I was glad I'd read the descriptions of the entry on the Internet before arriving. The...
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Cabedelo
The trip from Saint Helena to Cabedelo in Brazil was another easy passage. Cabedelo, or rather the village or suburb of Jacare further up the Paraiba river where the marinas are, is not the unspoilt romantic traditional place promised by my sailing guide,...
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Saint Helena
The stage from Cape Town to Saint Helena was a dream compared to, well, practically all the stages since Noumea to Cairns. In St. Helena, I didn't manage to see Napoleon's house due to being too mean but I still enjoyed St. Helena. A strange place. Cape...
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Round the world?
Have I gone round the world? With my arrival in Antigua I cross my trail for the first time. They didn't give F. Magellan the cigar until the Victoria sailed back up the Guadalquivir, though the expedition had already crossed its own track near the Cabo...
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Bermuda
I decided to go to Bermuda rather than head straight for the Azores (as many people seemed to be doing this year) more from force of habit than anything else. But I did want to see the America's Cup boats foiling even if I didn't have time to wait for...
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New Zealand to South Africa
Happy New Year and all the best for 2017 to all you cruisers, ex-cruisers and non-cruisers. I had kind of given up on my blog. It is a rather slow and laborious process to load text and pictures into it and it needs a good internet connection to be bearable...
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The Azores again
Bermuda to the Azores 27 May 2017 - 17 June 2017 My previous trip from Bermuda to the Azores in 2013 was fairly painless and quite fast. This trip was much less comfortable. I had to spend part of one night hove too. Then I hit a whale. Then I spent three...
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Samoa to Fiji
17-22 September 2014, Apia Samoa to Savusavu Fiji 17/09 Wednesday 1530 Left Apia at 10h00 just behind Paul and Helen Dickson in Taimoshan. As we sailed along the north coast of Upolu, the smaller island in Samoa they kept a north westerly course and it...
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The Azores to Lagos
04th - 11th July, Sao Miguel, Azores – Lagos, Portugal Marina Alcaides, La Linea, Spain, 23rd September 2013 I am resorting to augmenting the few notes I took during this passage with the emails I sent during the trip from the Azores to Portugal otherwise,...
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Bermuda to the Azores
22nd May - 5th June, Bermuda – Horta, Faial, Azores I recorded such detailed notes on my telephone during this trip that I have decided just to publish the whole thing in full gonzo mode. The new version of over-blog lets you stick a kind of album of...
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Canaria
9 th - 2 7 th November Puerto Calero, Lanzarote , in port 28th November Puerto Calero - Marina Rubicon, Lanzarote 29th November - 2nd December Marina Rubicon in port 3rd -4th December Marina Rubicon - Marina Santa Cruz, Tenerife 5th December - 11th December,...
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Gibraltar to Lanzarote
28th October - 1st November Gibraltar - Mohammedia 1st - 4th November Mohammedia (in port) 5th - 9th November, Mohammedia to Lanzarote You can see from the dates above that it took me almost two weeks to go from Gibraltar to Lanzarote. This must be a...
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Windward Islands 2
11th February Vieux Fort - Wallilabou, St. Vincent 11th - 12th February, Wallilabou on a buoy, line ashore 13th February, Wallilabou - Port Elizabeth, Bequia 13th - 17th February, Port Elizabeth on a buoy 18th February, Port Elizabeth - Charlestown, Canouan,...
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Windward Islands 1
14th January, Port St. Charles - Carlisle Bay 14th - 15th January, anchored in Carlisle Bay 16th January, Port St. Charles - Rodney Bay, St. Lucia 17th - 20th January, Rodney Bay marina 21st January, Rodney Bay - Le Marin, Martinique 21st January, Le...
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Westward
Welcome to the blog. It may surprise you to know that it was not always my dream to go off and live on a boat. As far as boats went, I had a vague idea that if I found myself living near the sea again, I'd have a J24 and race it on weekends. When I decided...
