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  • Sailing in the Greek Islands. Reflections on 2024

    Sailing in the Greek Islands. Reflections on 2024

    Here we are well beyond end of the sailing season and feeling like life on water is another half remembered dream.  Those of us who don’t live aboard full time have been in the process of packing up their boats and have headed home or off on other adventures. The full time live aboards have…

  • 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…