Just a short note to say we finally arrived safely in NE Sardinia after almost 3 days at sea. We have notched up our 700th mile underway - with 345 on this leg alone.
We started with a very hard slog through the straits of Messina into a F6 with reasonably big seas that saw the skipper in his foulies. Once through the straits - including a short refuelling stop, the wind dropped and we shaped course towards Sardinia via Stromboli. Millie, apparently has drafted a blog en-route -for you fans out there- but we will need to get somewhere with WIFI to upload it.
We had a pretty uneventful sail with little wind and calm seas - stopping yesterday for 45 minutes to allow the crew to swim off the boat in 3,000m of water.
We are now anchored in a pleasant little bay in NE Sardinia with plans to push north tomorrow - the goal is to round the 'top' of Sardinia before heading towards Barcelona early next week.
I have seen the comments about the album - I don't know what's happening - I can see it when I look st the site, but Mel confirmed that she also gets an error message - glad I spent all that time tagging and uploading the pics! I have set up a shared iCloud album and invited you to subscribe, so hopefully this will be more successful!