SV ICE BEAR

Vessel Name: ICE BEAR
Vessel Make/Model: Privilege 39
Hailing Port: Victoria Canada
Crew: Don and Cindy
About: From Vancouver Island British Columbia. Retired and enjoying relaxing Cruising.
Extra: we were hard core racers having sailed many many miles and loved the Long distance races with our previous three boats and friends boats but now we are pulling the throttles back. Even though ICE BEAR has a very nice turn of speed.
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27 July 2019

Paxos / Corfu

The next morning we paid the new Greek cruising tax said goodbye to the guys on Mangata and the lovely town of Preveza. Our next stop was Paxos. The island of Paxos was only a short hop up the Greek coast. It was a great place to wait for good conditions to cross the Adriatic sea to Italy. The harbour [...]

12 July 2019 | Nydri marine

The Bank

With our return to Vliho bay the weather cooled back down and the rain returned we spent the next few days doing more boat jobs.Found the rattle in the steering system there was wear in the linear drive and to fix it we needed new parts sigh one more job for Tunisia. Replaced the fresh water pump, fixed [...]

30 June 2019

The Aussie

We motored to the stern of Mangata and knocked. From inside we heard a hello woohoo he was home well we kinda knew he was home the dinghy was tied to the stern. We climbed aboard and went below for a quick tour and drink. I always forget how much room is inside a Bavaria. There must be at least [...]

07 May 2019

The next ten days were spent in the boat yard. Unlike last year there was no red dirt but it was cold and wet.Fortunately we had a heater and electricity. When it rained we went to the stores for parts and food when it dried for a few minutes we painted the bottoms, serviced the engines, repaired [...]

25 April 2019 | Temple of Zeus, Olympia

Adventure 2019 begins

The 2019 travel season started on April 2nd with a ferry ride to Vancouver where wonderful friends put us up for the night before the flight to Greece. Thank you so much. The flight was just the way we like flights uneventful. Once we passed through customs and satisfied the man at the exit that the [...]

24 April 2019

Wrap up of 2018 sailing season

When we left our intrepid traveler Emmet he was in Poros waiting for a weather system to pass. While waiting food was consumed and roads were walked. One of the boats near us had its anchor lifted and ended up side tied to the quay which wasn’t a great place to be. The surge from the storm and other [...]

Hvar

13 September 2017
Hvar was the next destination. It is a walled city like Dubrovnic only smaller. We thought woohoo a smaller city maybe less people and a chance to get a good look at the wall but the description of
the town in the travel guide suggests that's not what will happen the guide talks about glitz and night clubs then compares it to the Riviera hmmm it cant be that bad right?
About an hour out of the city we started seeing boats and more boats we started counting soon we were well into the 70's. We needed to stop counting as we found ourselves part of the mass and
needed to keep an eye out for the non boater in the little day rental boats. When we came around the corner we could see Hvar at first it looked really inviting stores,restaurants and the wonderful
walled city but as we drove closer we started to see the boats they were tied to the quay, on mooring balls, and anchored. The boats that were moving were going fast causing really big waves it
was like a washing machine I couldn't imagine being on one of the tied boats just watching them buck in the wash was making me queasy.
We pushed further into the bay where a boat from the harbour master met us and said there was no room go up the coast to find a place to tie. We slowly turned around and wove our way back out to
the relative safety of openish water where we met up with Micasay and decided to find a place on Planikovac island. The spot looked quite protected it was a stern tie to the beach. Well the trees
on the beach. we couldn't get both boats together the first day but they were near enough that we could see each other Micasay helped us and we helped them, making the tie so much easier. Seems this was a clothing optional area so many body parts.... Once we cooled off with a swim and had a nap it was time to go to Hvar. It was time for Micasay's dingy to shine they had a big outboard engine on it
and boy could it go. It took less then 20 minutes in all the ugly waves and traffic to get us to Hvar. It was worth our lives to get out of the dingy though. You needed to time the waves right to get out or you could be flipped out into the water. There were more people in the city then boats in the harbour. The place was a mass of humanity but it had everything you could want food, bank, bakery, grocery stores, clubs and of course the small streets one would expect in a old city. hehehe one of us craved Thai and we found that as well. We grabbed the groceries we needed and made a run back to the dingy and used its big engine to get us safely back to the boats. We were happy for the relative calm of Planikavac island then at midnight it started the boom boom boom we couldn't believe how well we could hear the dj's sometime around 4 am they stopped. This was it turned out an every night thing We spent 5 days here swimming checking out the island. One day we walked to the other side another day we took our dingy for a very long trip down the outside of the string of islands to a resort type area with lots of mooring balls to try out one of the restaurants. It turned
out to be very expensive 800 kn for dinner then we were able to use the tri coloured light someone picked up so we could be seen in the dark on the trip back. We dingyed to Hvar for supplies several times and enjoyed a few potluck type meals with Micasay.
There were boats of all sizes tied to the trees the 70 ft power boat that tied next to us was controled by a topless lady with a what looked like an i phone she stood on the deck running both
the boat and windlass ( thing that controls the anchor chain) while I think teasing her husband and son about being slow tying the lines to the beach. We took the opportunity to do some boat jobs
greasing winches in Icebear and helping Micasay put her spinnaker into its sock. Several days back Micasay found they were leaking oil from one of their sail drives and had started to contact yards in Croatia and Italy that could potentially repair the leak and while in Dubrovnik we had purchased a 33 kg Rokna Anchor to be picked up in a city called Split. while we were enjoying the swimming and relaxing some of their enquiries were starting to be answered and they found a yard inItaly that would serve their purposes. We still
needed to head north to Split. The sad day arrived on the 20th of aug spurred into action by a new Bora (A type of land affect wind) we both pulled away from the island and went our separate ways we were with them almost 3 weeks and had lots of fun :).
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