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 CadaquƩs 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 [...]

Back to Spain

24 August 2017 | Bay of Roses
Skipper, NE 4, pt. Cloudy, slight sea
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!

We sailed into o a bay next to St Tropez. It was a nice quiet spot, tucked just around the corner. After food, we took the dinghy into the town itself ( see picture album). The next morning we made an early start - 06:00 to put in a longish sail westwards towards the Calanques to the east of Marseille. These are spectacular limestone cliffs with fissures and bays eroded into them and we found a very pleasant one called Sormiou. There was paddle boarding and Mel even made it ashore for her walk to keep that step count up!

The original plan had been to spend a few days pottering along the Calanques before heading back across the Bay De Lion but the enforced lay up and the weather put paid to that plan. Looking at the forecasts there was a small weather window before some more bad weather was due to set in across the bay ( by 'weather window' I mean merely very windy rather than extremely windy). We set off at 05:00 the next day to make the 17 1/2 hour crossing into increasing wind and seas. We arrived to NE Spain about 22:30 and were anchored by 23:00. The crossing was not too bad we had a maximum of 27kt winds but some very lumpy seas for the last 3 hours.

After a night's rest (interrupted by a heavy downpour at about 05:00 - which lead to a scramble to shut hatches and windows) we set off at 10:30 back south to get out of the way of the impending heavy weather up around the NE cape. It's an area that deserves its fearsome reputation, we found that the wind was consistently much higher that the forecast around the cape as were the seas. Not somewhere I'd be in a hurry to return to!

Hopefully a couple of days easy sailing with short hops between anchorages towards Barcelona.
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