A Timeless Odyssey

Allures 45 (a thing of great practical beauty)

Turks and Caicos and over to the Bahamas with Mike on board

01 April 2024 • George Town

St Maarten, The BVIs and Passage to Turks and Caicos.

28 March 2024 • Not here we are in the Bahamas now

A long overdue blog

23 March 2024 • Nowhere near where this blog is about

2024 Plans

18 December 2023 • Still in the Blighty

The Grenadines, Carriacou, Grenada and on to Trinidad

29 March 2023 • Shagheranus

Heading South and through the Windward islands to the Grenadines

18 March 2023 • The Grenadines

Some time with our kids and then a small delay before we head south

18 February 2023 • Deshaise

The Caribbean at last. The first month: Antigua, Barbuda and Guadeloupe.

08 February 2023 • Falmouth, Antigua

An Atlantic crossing (Mindelo, Cape Verde to Jolly Harbour, Antigua)

03 January 2023 • Morris Bay, Antigua

Al Gomera and a passage to, and a sojourn in Cape Verde

12 December 2022 • Mindelo

Briefly Las Palmas and then on to Tenerife

06 December 2022 • The Canary Islands

Lanzarote and Fuerteventura

13 November 2022 • Strugging to find a marina on Tenerife

Madeira … a stunning island to spend 7-10 days on, and then a passage to the Canaries.

30 October 2022 • La Graciosa

Almerimar to Porto Santo and Madeira

25 October 2022 • Quinto do Lorde Marina, Madeira

About to head out ....here we go....watch this space.

27 September 2022 • Still in Pommieland

A passage to Menorca, briefly the Balearics, on to Mainland Spain and our final destination for this trip, Almerimar

24 June 2022 • Almerimar

Valetta to Sardinia (790Nm behind us approximately 550Nm to Almerimar)

24 May 2022 • Calasseta

A Passage to Malta and several days in Valletta

05 May 2022 • Marina di Valletta

Special blog. A humanitarian crisis, a first hand account

04 May 2022 • Valletta

Greek vibes are cool. The prep job. (2100km, 1134Nm as the crow flies and approximately 1500Nm sailing) to Almerimar)

25 April 2022 • Fiskardo

Heading West, interim destination Almerimar (135Nm from Gib, 1500Nm from Preveza

09 April 2022

Greece Season 4 (Blog 5)

15 October 2021 • Preveza

Greece Season 4 (Blog 4)

26 September 2021

Greece Season 4 (Blog 3)

26 September 2021

Greece Season 4 (Blog 2)

13 September 2021 • Mandraki

Greece Season 4 (Blog 1)

17 August 2021 • Meganisis

Ionian 2020 Blog 4 (27 October 2020)

01 November 2020 • Boat in Preveza

Ionian 2020 Blog 3…… “The sea took my Vespa”…(12 October 2020)

15 October 2020 • Sailing Holidays Pontoon, Nidri

Ionian Blog 2 (28 September 2020)

01 October 2020 • Posted from Two Rock Bay

Ionian Blog 1 (September 2020)

18 September 2020 • Plataria, Greece

Peloponnese Blog 6 (written much later)

17 January 2020 • Preveza

Peloponnese Blog 5 (19 August 2019)

30 August 2019 • Gulf of Corinth

Peloponnese Blog 4 (9 August 2019)

21 August 2019 • Preveza but blog about Saronic Gulf

Peloponnese Blog 3 (15 July 2019)

25 July 2019

Peloponnese Blog 2 (24 June 2019)

07 July 2019 • Elafonisos

Peloponnese Blog 1

28 June 2019 • Ag. Nikolaos, Zakynthos

The 2019 short season about to kick-off

11 June 2019 • Cleopatra Marina (but we are still in London)

Eastern Med Blog 4, The Ionian South of Lefkas canal (June/July 2018)

15 July 2018 • Cleopatra Marina

Eastern Med Blog 3, The Ionian (June 2018)

23 June 2018 • Fiskardho

Eastern Med Blog 2 (May/June 2018)

17 June 2018 • Lefkas or thereabouts

Eastern Med Blog 1 (May 2018)

31 May 2018

Heading for a shorter sailing season

03 May 2018

Western Med Blog 13 (A summary of the sailing season, out-takes, highlights, must do, should avoid, cultural quirks, etcetera.)

28 October 2017 • Back in London, reflecting on a season past

Western Med Blog 12 (Down the ‘shin’ of Italy, the Aeolian islands and touch and go in northern Sicily before returning to the Aeolians and going through the Straights of Messina)

19 October 2017 • Ragusa for the winter

Western Med Blog 11 (Pontine islands and southwards down the leg of Italy)

08 September 2017 • Pontine islands, Amalfi Coast and southwards

Western Med Blog 10 (Around the northern tip of Corsica, the Tuscan islands and on “the road” to Rome)

08 September 2017 • Tuscan Islands and Rome

Western Med Blog 9 (Up the West Coast of Corsica)

15 August 2017 • Northern Corsica

Western Med Blog 8 (Maddalena Archipelago and Southern Corsica)

02 August 2017 • Bonifacio

Western Med Blog 7 (Pottering around northern Sardinia and a visit to Bonifacio before returning to Pommieland for a graduation)

24 July 2017 • Maddalena archipelago

Western Med Blog 6

05 July 2017 • Castelsardo

Western Med Blog 5 (Magnificent Mallorca)

24 June 2017 • Cala Santandria, Menorca

Western Med Blog 4 (The Balearic Islands: Ibiza, Formentera, a crossing to Mallorca and the stunning NW coastline)

11 June 2017 • Sóller

Link to Daughter Tayo's You Tube Vlog

05 June 2017

Western Med Blog 3 (Calpe and onwards to the Balearic Islands)

03 June 2017 • Formentera

Western Med Blog 2 (Cartagena, Mar Menor, Torrevieja, Alicante and north to Calpe)

26 May 2017 • Calpe

Western Med Blog 1 (Amerimar northwards up the Costa Blanca)

16 May 2017 • Cartagena

Mini-blog tester. Almerimar

06 May 2017 • Almerimar

Getting ready to go back to the boat

11 April 2017

Holland to the Costa del Sol/Costa Blanco border, a summary; reflections on a journey in retrospect.

29 September 2016 • Madrid on the way back to London

Med Bound Blog 14: The last few nautical miles to the close of the season for us.

29 September 2016 • Amliramar

Med Bound Blog 13 (Andalusia, British and Spanish enclaves, the Costa del Sol and fun with the boys)

22 September 2016 • Marina de Est

Med Bound Blog 12 (The Algarve to the Spanish border)

03 September 2016 • Portuguese Spanish Border

Med Bound Blog 11 (The length of Portugal accompanied by girl power and later Jimmy)

27 August 2016 • Portemao, Algarve

Med Bound Blog 10 (Atlantic Spain, Galacia and the beautiful Rías)

11 August 2016 • Baiona

Med Bound Blog 9 (Biscay crossing; Veronica's account thereof))

29 July 2016 • La Coruña, Spain

Med Bound Blog 8 (World class cruising ground, weather to match and Biscay crossing)

28 July 2016 • A Coruna, Spain

Med Bound Blog 7

10 July 2016 • Benodet

Med Bound Blog 6

27 June 2016 • Helford Estuary

Med Bound; Blog 5

19 June 2016 • Fowey

Med Bound, Blog 4 (from Torquay)

10 June 2016 • Torquay

Med Bound Blog 3

28 May 2016 • Gosport

Med bound, blog 2

23 May 2016 • Eastbourne

The Blog begins again; progress and setbacks

15 May 2016 • Willemstadt

Planning and sailing, stretch goal the Southern Mediterranean Coast of Spain

26 April 2016 • London

A Statistical Summary of our Baltic Cruise

26 October 2015

Baltic B-Log, 02 October 2015 (The west side of Ijsselmeer, testing probability theory in Hoorn, back out to sea at Ijmuiden and the end of the Baltic Odyssey and the sailing season)

02 October 2015 • We are home in London but the boat is in The Netherlands for winter

Baltic B-Log, 19 September 2015 (Looking for ancestral roots alongside the “Mast-up” canal route and on to Dokkum)

19 September 2015 • Dokkum

A video from Mike Cave

10 September 2015 • Posted from back home in London.

Baltic B-Log, 10 September 2015 (Back in Holland, taking a pause before starting the “Mast-up” canal route)

10 September 2015 • Delfzijl

Baltic B-Log, 5 September 2015 (Back through the Kiel canal to the world of tides and WOW)

05 September 2015 • Cuxhaven

Baltic B-Log 31 August (Back to Kiel and closing the Swedish and Danish circle)

31 August 2015 • British Kiel Yacht Club

Baltic B-Log (bashing to wind and into the neck of the Lille Bælt)

29 August 2015 • Fredericia, Denmark

Baltic B-Log (to 26 August, around the knob of Jutland and on to Tunø)

26 August 2015 • Tunø

Baltic B-Log (Trollhätte canal and across the Kattegat)

23 August 2015 • Bønnerup

Baltic B-Log (Ups and downs in the Göta canal the second half)

17 August 2015 • Vänerborg

Baltic B-Log (8 August onwards, Göta canal)

13 August 2015 • Vadstena

Baltic B-Log to 7 August (Back through Stockholm, Lake Märalen and onto the start of the Göta Canal)

12 August 2015 • The last of the Stockholm Archi

Sorry about lack of blog but they are on my laptop and we have had no Wifi on the Göta canal yet

11 August 2015 • Motala

Last stage of East Baltic by Veronica

04 August 2015 • Saltsjöbaden

Baltic B-Log (That delightful Krok place to Härsö)

03 August 2015 • Saltsjöbaden

Baltic B-Log (Stockholm, Vaxholm and onward to Krokholmsviken)

28 July 2015 • Långvik on Möja island

Baltic B-Log (Sandhamn to Stockholm for the first time on Friday 24 July 2015)

25 July 2015 • Stockholm

Baltic B-Log (Nynäshamn and bumbling through the rocks to Sandhamn)

22 July 2015 • Sandhamn , Stockholm Achipelago, Sweden

Baltic B-Log (the unfortunate demise of Nespresso; Baltic desert islands; and a night crossing)

16 July 2015 • Nynäshamn

Baltic B-Log to the morning of Monday 13 July (Gotland and Fårö, pronounced nothing like Tayo's boyfriend and fellow crew members surname)

15 July 2015 • Gotland, Fårö and on to Gotsk Sandon ( but the location is where we next found WiFi)

Baltic B-Log 7 to 9 July (Kalmar into the Wilderness and a crossing to Gotland)

10 July 2015 • Visby, Götland

Baltic B-Log July 5 th and 6 th......lightning is frightening.

07 July 2015 • Kalmar, Sweden

Baltic B-Log 4 July

05 July 2015

Baltic B-Log 1,2,3 July 2015 (Borgholm and onto Sweden)

05 July 2015 • Grönhögen

Baltic B-Log days 27 through to 1 July (back to Pommieland for Tayo's commem....and then on to Sweden)

01 July 2015 • Hasle, Borgholm, Denmark

Baltic B-Log, Days 23 and 26 (Kiel to Vordingburg and on to Koge just south of Copenhagen)

26 June 2015 • Through Denmark to Koge near Copenhagen

Baltic B-Log Day 23 (Kiel Canal)

24 June 2015 • Kiel Canal

Baltic B-Log Days 18 and 19 (A seriously Odd island to the Kiel canal)

20 June 2015 • Brunsbuettel

Baltic B-Log days 15 and into day 17

18 June 2015 • Helgoland

Vee's Version on reaching Germany

16 June 2015 • Borkum

Baltic B-Log days 13 and 14 (Vlieland and Lauwersoog)

14 June 2015 • Lauwersoog

Baltic first fortnight musings

13 June 2015 • Vlieland.

Baltic B-Log Days 10 and 11. The Great Shallow Lakes of Holland to Harlingen

12 June 2015 • Harlingen

Baltic B-Log Day 8 (loosing sense of time actually Day 9)

09 June 2015 • IJmuiden

Baltic B-log Day 7 and 8

08 June 2015 • Den Haag

Baltic B-Log Day 5 and 6

06 June 2015 • Breskens

Baltic B-Log Days 3 and 4

04 June 2015 • Calais

What to do on an off day...

02 June 2015

Baltic B-Log Day 1 & 2

02 June 2015 • Brighton

Baltic log Day zero minus 4 and counting

28 May 2015

Less than a month to go to the start of our 3-4 month Baltic Odyssey

05 May 2015

Water maker instalment 2

20 March 2015

Planning for the Baltic cruise

17 March 2015 • On various planning tools in London

Water Maker installation

17 March 2015 • Portsmouth, UK

The first year (before starting the blog page)

16 March 2015 • Solent, English Channel and Brittany