Category: Life Aboard

  • Postcards Home: Cyclades part 2 or When Everything Goes Wrong….

    Postcards Home: Cyclades part 2 or When Everything Goes Wrong….

    After a great tour of the North Western Cyclades we jumped from Tinos across to the northern end of Paros to a large bay called Naoussa. We’d been here once before in October in 2022 when we sat on the boat, alone in a howling meltemi for 7 days.  Our boat clocked over 2 nautical…

  • Life onboard: Route Planning and Weather

    Life onboard: Route Planning and Weather

    The weather, especially the wind dictates our travel planning, our comfort and our safety and we talk about it endlessly both with each other and any other yachties we meet up with. The sun, the wind, the rain, thunderstorms, the sea state, the dust, the moon, you name it. The other thing we think and…

  • I’m just going to buy milk honey……

    I’m just going to buy milk honey……

    In some ways the rhythms and routines are just like life on land and in other ways it’s very different. There’s still shopping, cooking, exercising, dealing with life admin, cleaning, showering and too much washing up. Added to this there’s a lot of maintenance for Rick as things break all the time and regular cleaning,…