We had been in Marina di Ragusa for a couple of days and various countries were starting to make plans for a second lockdown, we decided that before this happens we needed to arrange collection of the old girl who had been left in the boatyard in Preveza, Greece. After researching our options to travel […]
As the weather is generally more unsettled during the winter in the Mediterranean it is not particularly enjoyable sailing, so we intend to spend the next few months in Sicily. It was another sunny day but there was some strong wind and rain forecast in a couple of days so we decided to head to […]
Once the strong winds and swell of the last few days had reduced, (we thought!) the forecast looked favourable to leave mainland Italy and continue our journey on to Sicily. We planned to sail on a southwesterly course across to Siracusa on the east coast of Sicily which is approximately 100 miles, so we set […]
After a restful night in Erikoussa, we had received our negative Covid test results so we slipped our lines and left the harbour at 8am. We could see that there was still quite a bit of swell so raised our sails before leaving the protection of the harbour and headed out to sea. It was […]
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