This week we’ve had a week of travelling which started when we lifted the anchor at Favignana. The sun was rising and a force 3 northerly wind was blowing as we left Favignana, and headed northwest towards Capo Carbonara on the south coast of Sardinia. Once out of the bay, we had the sails up […]
Favignana and the Aegadian Islands are part of the province of Trapani, which is just 11 nm away on the western tip of Sicily. It was a very calm sunny day as we lifted our anchor from the clear blue water and headed over to Trapani, where we anchored in the sheltered harbour. In contrast […]
After a few days in Mazara del Vallo and a couple of trips up the river, it was time to move on. We lifted the anchor and motored out of the bay heading north towards the Aegadian islands. The Aegadian islands (also known as the Egadis) are a group of five small mountainous islands situated […]
It was the morning of our planned departure from Malta. We set our course to travel 132nm in a northwesterly direction. The weather forecast was for light winds and flat seas, and we would hope to arrive the following day. However, there was possibly some stormy weather at our destination, we briefly debated the merit […]
It was good to finally be floating again, the engineer investigated the fuel leak and said he needed a different tool and left. We wrongly thought that he would return that day. With the expectation that it would be fixed within a couple of days, we set to work getting ZigZag prepared. The water tank […]
We left the UK and returned back to Malta, and ZigZag, in the spring with our bags full of boat parts and a long list of jobs to do. As Ziggy was still out of the water we had an apartment, which was a luxury, rather than staying in the dusty, dirty boat yard. The […]
Sailing ZigZag 