Freebirdie's Sailin' Blog

22 November 2011 | Seattle
01 August 2011 | Santa Maria di Leuca
03 July 2011 | Greece
15 June 2011 | Gulf of Corinth
05 June 2011 | Athens
28 May 2011 | Poros Greece
25 April 2011 | Symi Island
13 April 2011 | Naxos, Greece
20 February 2011 | Istanbul, Turkey
30 January 2011 | Ephesus
28 January 2011 | Marmaris
16 January 2011 | Selcuk, Turkey
31 December 2010 | Marmaris
24 October 2010 | Cappadocia, Turkey
16 September 2010 | Marmaris Turkey
26 August 2010 | Fethiye, Turkey
19 August 2010 | Marmaris
03 August 2010 | Larnaca Cyprus
01 August 2010 | Mediterranean Sea
30 July 2010 | Ashkelon Marina

Saturday afternoon ~ underway

17 March 2010 | Eritrea, Africa
Dave n Judy
We're still out here sailing away. Right at this moment there is a fishing frenzy! Big fish flying out of the water chasing the little fish & boobies, pelicans diving. Davey dropped his 2 lines in the water. Yesterday, we had to leave that super windy windy anchorage without getting to shore to hike the cinder cone. There was no way we could even think about launching the dinghy. We had to leave at 3AM in order to make it to the next anchorage before dark. At first we had southerlies but just at daylight it switched to northerlies, luckily for us ~ light northerlies. We sailed until the afternoon until the wind was on the nose & we motorsailed into the anchorage. There was only 1 other boat there that had sailed all night & stayed the day. We picked them up in our dinghy when we went over to have a potluck BDay party with our friends who was celebrating their guest/crew/friend's 65th BDay. It was our first time off of the boat since we left Aden last week. We sorta thought of it as "land time". It was a pretty big stretch considering monohulls are known to roll a bit... But we had lots of fun with it! We wanted to make it to Port Smyth/Shuma Island today for snorkeling but with the northerlies couldn't get in before dark so we just pulled into Adjuz. It's gotten overcast & not too inviting right at the moment. We came through a super shallow patch going between the 2 islands that had us terrorized momentarily when we got down to 2 ft on the depth meter but managed to get through there ok.... phew.... Davey caught a beautiful Travali or something.... oh yummm, dinner!
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Vessel Name: Freebird
Vessel Make/Model: Grainger MC420 Catamaran
Hailing Port: Seattle
Crew: Dave and Judy Howell
About:
Dave started building Freebird in 1995 in a plastic shed on Camano Island, NW USA and launched her in April of 2001. He retired from the Fire Department in 1999 after 28 years of service. Judy Retired from dentistry in 1995 after 27 years. [...]
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