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Sailing the Mediterranean 2024
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Sailing the Mediterranean 2024

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    Parga

    September 15, 2024 in Greece ⋅ ☁️ 22 °C

    2 Rock Bay to Parga. Spending the day in the bay before we head to.Parga. Our final night onboard and a night onboard playing cards gur humanity. A early walk to show Glyn town and get some carbs in the morning before they leave 😜. It's been good to spend time with our special friend.Read more

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    Italy Melito de Porto Salvo

    September 20, 2024 in Italy ⋅ ☀️ 26 °C

    Ionians Lakka to Italy Melito de Porto Salvo. Very bumpy into the swell. 5 hour sailing, remainder engine. Fat lip from a coffee cup trying to sort out coffee cups. Rookie mistake and not my brightest moment. Anchor tonight not great and deep and too close to shore but only option is to wait until wind conditions improve.Read more

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    Isola di Lisca Bianca

    September 21, 2024 in Italy ⋅ ☁️ 23 °C

    Melito di Porto Salvo to Isola di Lisca Bianca. 13h35. A big day out through the nightmare that the Messina delivered. Within 100 meters, we went from a speed of 8 knots to 2 knots while trying to cross a traffic separation zone with 200-meter tankers and cruise ships, all while avoiding high-speed cockroach ferries. At least the sword fishermen were not out to play in the unfolding drama. Tonight, we are alone between two volcanic outcrops, with the seabed bubbling up sulfur all around us. Tomorrow we go snorkeling 🤿Read more

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    Isola Di Panarea Cala Junco

    September 22, 2024 in Italy ⋅ ☁️ 24 °C

    Isola di Lisca Bianca to Isola Di Panarea Cala Junco . Absolutely excellent spot. Sadly chased away by the over zealous Italians saying anchor prohibited 🚭 even if there is no single publication anywhere about this. But we had the opportunity to take exceptional drone footage and to snorkel in a tunnel and for me to shred my stomach sliding down a cliff face. A quick move to escape the Italian coastguard around the corner to the next bay and then what the heck - let's not stay and rather cross overnight to Sicily mainland.Read more

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    Palermo Aranella bay

    September 23, 2024 in Italy ⋅ ☁️ 24 °C

    Isola Di Panarea Cala del Morto to Palermo Aranella bay. On the 19th of August a 55m yacht named Bayesian sank off the coast of Sicily. It made the news because of a freak storm and the fact that a billionaire died in it that night. Despite the 40 knot katabatic winds we ourselves enjoyed off that same coastline earlier this year, we decided to head for that same anchorage. Fortunately no storms were on the radar. Anchor in 8m sand and easy access to shore for date night and time to discover Palermo town and eat Sicilian Pizza and enjoy my favourite drink aside from tequila - Aperol Spritz,🍸Read more

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    Baia Di Mondelli

    September 24, 2024 in Italy ⋅ ☀️ 22 °C

    Palermo Arenella to Baia Di Mondelli. Moving to get closer to our departure the next day to Sardegna but more than that. Moving location so we can get to turquoise water to swim in as outside of town was ewe 🤢. A noticeable drop in water temperature over the past week but still amazing. A beautiful bay and excellent holding in sand of 5m.Read more

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    Porto Giunco

    Sep 26–29, 2024 in Italy ⋅ 🌙 23 °C

    Sicily Mondello to Sardegna Porto Giunco. We expected a little thunderstorm but we're treated to a 30 knot squall and a downpour. Seeing the ominous clouds ahead and above prepared us so fortunately we put in a reef on both the head and main sail. When the wind died suddenly and turned it was an additional heads-up something major was about to hit. Turning on both engines and 2000 revs helped us manage the situation of being turned as the wind climbed to 30 knots from beam on port to beam on starboard in 30 seconds. Otherwise the trip was pretty uneventful and mostly by sail. Hello Sardegna - Menorca we are on our way. This bay is really beautiful and good holding in 4.5m as it is a reserve - not irritating jet skis buzzing around us. Bonus 🤗Read more

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    Menorca Cala Teulera

    October 1, 2024 in Spain ⋅ ☀️ 23 °C

    Sardegna Porto Giunco to Spain Menorca Cala Teulera. 55 hours. Shewee. The trip started out with a strong wind, a reef and a rollercoaster. Good sailing for 10 hours. Followed by some engine and then light wind sailing in calm conditions the rest of the way. Almost 0 other boats between Sardegna south and Menorca. We are at our second home 🏠 time to start that winter maintenance!!!Read more

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    Caló Blanco

    October 4, 2024 in Spain ⋅ ⛅ 19 °C

    Cala Teulera to Caló Blanco. After the nightmare in Cala Teulera and being given permission to anchor in the traffic lane for safety purposes, we however had to leave by 7am and so we sailed to a beautiful bay bright and early with 8m depth and turquoise waters with a mooring position below the final approach of the Mahón airport. Hidden rocks in the Poseidon.Read more

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    Es Grau Punta Frau Bernat

    October 10, 2024 in Spain ⋅ ⛅ 22 °C

    Cala Teulera to Es Gray Punta Frau Bernat. Making the most of the day after my birthday as the 9th was spent anxiously watching the very strong southerly with waves in our bay until early into the morning of the 10th. A run followed by lunch in a delightful Es Castel Cove. Grabbing the opportunity in the afternoon to head to Es Gray, a location we always enjoy.Read more

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    Illa Den Colom

    October 11, 2024 in Spain ⋅ ☀️ 18 °C

    Es Grau Punta Frau Bernat to Illa Den Colom. Sometimes you move because it's prettier elsewhere and sometimes it's just too swelly where you are. We moved just before the downpour. Dropped in 2.5m depth then moved to a 6m depth with less roll.Read more

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    Arenys de Mar

    October 15, 2024 in Spain ⋅ ☁️ 20 °C

    Menorca Pregonda to Arenys de Mar. As our summer season and this FindPenguins 2024 Trip is ending it seems fitting to pop a visit into Catalunya and spend a week in Arenys de Mar to do some mountain biking with our good Spanish friends Sergio and Razz. It's strange to be back in city life. A lot of boat traffic across and good sailing ⛵Read more

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    Cala Santandria

    October 19, 2024 in Spain ⋅ 🌙 16 °C

    Arenys de Mar to Menorca Cala Santandria. A good trip across but unfortunately too much engine for the 2nd half - 22 hours from mainland and a good average speed. Anchor in 5m good sand with 40m across the bay. A wonderful run on the tricky Cami in mud, mud and more mud 😂.Read more

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    Cala Turqueta

    October 23, 2024 in Spain ⋅ ☀️ 22 °C

    Cala Santandria to Cala Turqueta. It's been 4 years since we have been able (timing and wind) to be able to return to this bay. So good to connect with Alan from Amigos and join him for a pisco sour onboard. Shew but what's up with all of these flies? Anchor in 6m, did slide across some rocks and lost our position slightly. Barely any signal.Read more

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    Cala Algaiarens

    October 25, 2024 in Spain ⋅ ☁️ 22 °C

    Cala Turqueta to Cala Algaiarens. Beautiful bay. Wild natural and well protected from everything except the north. Very little swell. Easy trip by bike to ciutadella. A wonderful hike and a good run. 4 days in this bay. Tried to rescue a manta ray caught by a fishing hook dragging plastic. The cliffs are an amazing rich red colour.

    Anchor in 3m good sand with good swing room    Read more

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    Arenal d'en Castel

    October 30, 2024 in Spain ⋅ ☀️ 23 °C

    Cala Algaiarens to Arenal d'en Castel. Time to move on. Our last bay for the year. Scheduled and paid to go to Mahón on the 1st but strong south east winds preventing the journey. And even though we were supposed to go in on the 1st we decided to stay till the 5th of November. A good bay to hide from the tail of the Dana and forecast 150mm of rain that hit us at midnight a good place to rescue a baby hedgehog on my ride.Read more

    Trip end
    January 21, 2025
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