Night crossing to the Balearic Islands
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Overnight sail from Barcelona to Mallorca and a sunrise, just for me …
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‘YOU SEE, aDVENTURES ARE STUBBORN THINGS; THEY DON’T START WHEN YOU ARE READY AND THEY HANG AROUND LONG AFTER YOU THINK THEY’VE FINISHED. THE IMPORTANT THING IS THAT YOU SAY YES TO THEM’
ABI ELPHINSTONE, The Pocket elephant
Cala Santa Maria
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Firstly, you deliver a white sand bottom, which allows my anchor to dig into you and grip like Elnett on a ballerina bun. Then you mesmerise my mermaid, salt water gypsy soul with your insanely addictive blue. Blue. Blue...
Read MorePort de Taverna, One Very Clean Beach!
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An awesome days sailing. We left at the crack of dawn to get in as many miles as possible. Out of the marina at first light we were granted a force 4 from behind, set the sails and cruised along at a steady 6 to 7 knots all day. It was ideal, seven hours flew by without so much as a tack in sight, although we did have to dodge a floating fridge!
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Beam Me Up
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D-day has arrived. Departure day. We’ve spent five days taking apart everything we had spent three months setting up. De-rigged, unstepped the mast, stowed, padded and prepared.
Read MoreSix frenchman tussle with Silver Paw's Mast
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Unstepping a mast is supposed to be a fairly straightforward process, I’m told. It didn’t go that way for us. After a few days of preparations we thought we had it ready to hoist, but Pierre took one crank at our shrouds and shook his head...
Read MoreSt Malo & Chausey
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Jersey is a friendly sail to France and we were lucky enough to have a bank holiday weekend, some decent weather forecast and a couple of friends. Plus we wanted to test her cruising sea legs...
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