The Tomlin-Davies Crew on Annalee

Vessel Name: Annalee
Vessel Make/Model: Hallberg Rassy HR43
Crew: Si, Mel, Will & Millie
06 August 2019 | Bruges
05 August 2019 | Mercator Marina Ostend
24 August 2017 | Bay of Roses
20 August 2017 | Golfe de Juan
14 August 2017 | Anse de Cavaliere
12 August 2017 | Playa Guilloia
09 August 2017 | Roses
08 August 2017 | Palamos
07 August 2017 | Costa Dorada
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06 August 2019 | Bruges

Bruges

We planned on spending a day relaxing before the next two legs of the trip, so had a leisurely breakfast and took the train to Bruges. What a picturesque place it is, we walked around exploring picture postcard streets and had lunch at a place called Books & Brunch. They stocked lots of books in all [...]

05 August 2019 | Mercator Marina Ostend

Day 1 Dover to Ostend

We arrived in Dover late on Sunday evening having cheered Millie through the 200m Backstroke finals at Sheffield in the late afternoon. A dash down the M1 in torrential rain followed by a quick pit-stop at home to collect Will and the stuff we needed for the boat and we were once again on our way southwards. We [...]

24 August 2017 | Bay of Roses

Back to Spain

We finally managed to get away from Golfe de Juan. It was a really nice place but it wasn't part of the plan to spend so long there!

20 August 2017 | Golfe de Juan

Stuck in Golfe de Juan (or the black hole)

There has been no blog post for a few days as we've had, what seems like an escalating set of problems that needed sorting. On our way to Golfe de Juan - for what was planned to be a one-night stopover to refuel, water and visit the international fireworks display in Cannes - we experienced more engine [...]

14 August 2017 | Anse de Cavaliere

Finally in France

We managed to finally get over to France in a weather window. Leaving NE Spain on Sunday morning, we sailed until 23:30 to reach a town called La Ciotat which has a marina and a large bay, in which we anchored.

12 August 2017 | Playa Guilloia

Playa Gulloia

On Friday we moved from Roses to Cadaqués in windy conditions again -although thankfully the sea was smooth as the wind was gusting from the land and we were hugging the coast line. It was a relatively short journey of about three hours and we picked up a mooring buoy off the very picturesque town [...]

From Puerto de Roses

09 August 2017 | Roses
Skipper
Just to bring you all up to date with our (so far) eventful trip. We sailed from our first overnight stop in St Feliu de Guixols heading as far north as we could manage. As we were about an hour and a half into our trip heading into heavy seas and strong winds on the nose of 20-25kts the engine started to die as we were passing some particularly nasty looking of-shore rocks. We turned around and unfurled the sail to head towards a safe port to affect repairs.
We arrived in Palamos and skipper spent the afternoon searching out filters for the fuel tank. The heavy seas had churned up all the sludge and debris that inevitably collect in the diesel tanks and this had started to block the filters thus restricting fuel flow to the engine. Two filters replaced and the fuel system bled ensured the engine was once again running smoothly.

Today was another windy one with some more 'interesting' seas. I reckon we had close to 3m waves as we rounded Cape Begur in 27-30kts of wind (to get a feel - stick your hand out of the car window when you are travelling at 30mph).

We had about 5 ½ hours of bashing into big waves and wind today to get to Roses - right in the NE extremity of Spain. We decided to moor in the harbour DoE to the weather conditions and forecast. We ate our dinner huddled under the cockpit tent as the wind howled and the rain poured down (just like being at home!)

Now everything has calmed down and we are at relative peace in a very sheltered harbour, although there is a big storm raging just a fed miles down the coast with 30-40kt winds.
Millie's post has clearly gone down well and I think I should delegate the writing to her as she seems to be able to write a much more interesting blog!
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