Watching dawn arise, the atmosphere slowly but surely getting shade by shade lighter until the sun finally raises its head above the pulpit bursting colour and warmth across the sea. The swell calmed itself and for a few hours it was just me and Silver Paws, the sunrise and the sea...
Read MoreWelcome to the Costa Smeralda. This place has a rep. It's EXPENDO. The clues in the name...
Read MoreIt was rubbish. Only kidding... it looked like THIS!
Read MoreFor all our Jersey crew, imagine a larger version of the Echrehous, crawling with tourists. As we were scoping out the busy situation we scored big time as another boat departed leaving us with their anchor spot, which seem to be as rare as hens teeth.
Read MoreIt was only a six hour crossing from Elba into the french waters of Corsica, and our first port of call in Corsica was Bastia. There wasn't too many boats around so we sailed in our birthday suits... love the freedom of the ocean!
Read MoreElba was a pleasant surprise. Elegant, relaxed, and without a hint of posh. I don't ever recall meeting anyone who had been on holiday to Elba. They are all missing out.
Read MoreWe sat down to dinner at the end of the day and all readily agreed it had been a somewhat epic day. The kind of day you feel grateful for living...
Read MoreD-day has arrived. Departure day. We’ve spent five days taking apart everything we had spent three months setting up. De-rigged, unstepped the mast, stowed, padded and prepared.
Read MoreUnstepping a mast is supposed to be a fairly straightforward process, I’m told. It didn’t go that way for us. After a few days of preparations we thought we had it ready to hoist, but Pierre took one crank at our shrouds and shook his head...
Read MoreJersey is a friendly sail to France and we were lucky enough to have a bank holiday weekend, some decent weather forecast and a couple of friends. Plus we wanted to test her cruising sea legs...
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It's a big blue watery road...
