The Tomlin-Davies Crew on Annalee

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 [...]

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 [...]

Leaving El Masnou for France

07 August 2017 | Costa Dorada

Skipper - SSW F4; slight sea; sunny

After a busy few days getting things ready, provisioning, the never ending and ever expanding list of small repairs and some cleaning, we finally departed this morning from El Masnou (Annalee's temporary home).

The weather doesn't look particularly good over the next few days with a big mistral forecast from Wednesday with gale force winds in the area we are crossing. We have a small weather window today so have decided to put in a long-ish sail of about 27 hours to cross the Golfe de Lion in one hop and get as Far East as we can in one go. We are heading towards Marseille, hopefully arriving tomorrow lunchtime and the at should put us well ahead of any winds over the next few days.

The crew are all well - Mille is making the most of her resting opportunities following her medal-winning exploits in Sheffield at the Nationals, Will has been doing a lot of helping around the boat and Mel is making the most of the sun!

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