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Valletta (mostly)
23 rd July - Porto Palo – Grand Harbour Valletta (in port) 24 th July - Grand Harbour Valletta (in port) 25 th July - Grand Harbour Valletta (in port) 26 th July - Valletta – Baija San Niklaw, Comino (anchored) 27 th July - Baija San Niklaw – Baija Tad...
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Porto Palo
13 th July - Lipari – Stromboli (on a buoy) 14 th July - Stromboli – Naxos (in port) 15 th July - Naxos (in port) 16 th July - Naxos – Catania (in port) 17 th July - Catania (in port) 18 th July - Catania – Syracusa (anchored) 19 th July - Syracusa (anchored)...
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Lipari
30 th June - 2 nd July - Procida Marina (in port) 3 rd July - Procida Marina - Amalfi (in port) 4 th July - Amalfi - Oligastro (anchored) 5 th - 6 th July - Oligastro – Tropea (in port) 7 th July - Tropea (in port) 8 th July - Tropea – Vulcano Porto di...
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Procida Marina Part 2
19-21 June in Porto Vecchio (in port) 22-23 June - Porto Vecchio – Giglio (anchored in Cala Canelle) 24 June - Cala Canelle – Riva di Traiano (in port) 25-26 June in Riva di Traiano 27 June - Riva di Traiano to Anzio (anchored just outside port) 28 June...
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Procida Marina Part 1
19-21 June in Porto Vecchio (in port) 22-23 June - Porto Vecchio – Giglio (anchored in Cala Canelle) 24 June - Cala Canelle – Riva di Traiano (in port) 25-26 June in Riva di Traiano (in port) 27 June - Riva di Traiano to Anzio (anchored just outside port)...
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Les Saintes Maries de la Mer
I've got to the fifth destination in my itinerary in only three days so I've decided to stop for a day in Les Sainte Maries de la Mer. There is some unlikely legend associated with the name. Bouillabaisse comes into it somewhere too. Anyway, it's in the...
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St. Cyprien
Well, I'm still in St. Cyprien. The boat is still nearly ready but not quite. I hope to leave on Saturday the 26 th , at least that is what is says in my newly updated itinerary, a simplified copy of which you can seen in a separate article. I had better...
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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...
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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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Leeward Islands
4 th - 5 th April, Port Louis Grenada – Rodney Bay St. Lucia 6 th April, Anchored Rodney Bay 7 th April, Rodney Bay – Grande Anse d'Arlet Martinique 7 th – 12 th April, Anchored Grande Anse d'Arlet 13 th - 14 th April Martinique – Grenada 14 th - 18 th...
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How to be cool (Sandy's guide to what's hot and what's not in cruising.)
These are all current trends I've seen on cruising yachts. My boat, needless to say, has none of these, but I'm working on it. This article will be added to as more instances of coolness present themselves. Anchor lights Never use your masthead anchor...
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Porto Vecchio
9-13 June in Calvi 14 June - Calvi – Girolata 15 June - Girolata – Ajaccio 16 June - Ajaccio to Taravo (near Porto Pollo) 17 June - Taravo – Anse d'Arbitu 18 June - Anse d'Arbitu – Bonifacio 19 June - Bonifacio – Porto Vecchio 13 June Calvi The wind blows...
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Westward to Corsica (sort of)
Sitting in the boat at anchor in Port Man, the night before, I was in two minds about doing the crossing to Corsica at all. To start with, the wind was forecast as ESE or SE depending on who you believed. This would be right on the nose and would mean...
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Calvi
31 May - Les Stes Maries de la Mer – Marseilles (Frioul) 1 June - Marseilles – Cassis 2 June - Cassis – Bandol 2 – 6 June in Bandol 6 June - Bandol – Port Man 7 – 8 June - Port Man - Calvi I'm in full energy autonomy mode at the moment. I'm moored in...
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Itinerary
Apparently the pictures in articles are represented in teeny weeny mode. I've also put it in the photo album where it should be legible.
