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Tag: planning

  • 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…

  • The Slow Road Home to Intention

    The Slow Road Home to Intention

    It’s taken 7 weeks from leaving our home in Tasmania to launching out boat in Greece. 5 weeks in Thailand where Rick slogged away at learning to wing foil.  It’s hard graft with a lot of time in the water or walking back up the beach dragging a foiling board and managing a wing at…

  • Happy Days in the Social Islands…..

    Happy Days in the Social Islands…..

    It’s been a funny season for us.  With no fixed plans of where to go we’ve spent a lot of time going back and forth across the Aegean this year.  4 crossings so far in the last 3 months.  This has had the benefit of us putting to rest some nerves about the windiest regions…