After our first gale experience on the boat, we reached Mahon, Menorca. As its name implies, it’s the smaller of two main Balearic Islands. At the same time, it’s a great place to visit and enjoy the archipelago as it…
We set sails, finally, for good!
After all this time of preparations and re-fits, the boat seemed ready to be taken out to sea. Sunday September 8 we set up sails in the direction of Playa Santa Cristina, Spain with intention to anchor there for a…
Re-fit is moving along.
Since June 2018 ‘Jemm of the Sea II’ was on the hard at Port Napoleon (Port Napoleon on a map) She’s been worked on extensively: new engine, new genset, a new range and all those other things that EMEK…
Stepping the masts
And finally after all those months, the masts were stepped back on her yesterday. ” order_by=”sortorder” order_direction=”ASC” returns=”included” maximum_entity_count=”500″]
The Sad State of Things.
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Lots of sweat!
It took lots of sweat to get it fixed. Also it took 20l/5gal. of diesel oil and 6l/1.5gal. of transmission oil to get rid of this ‘strawberry milkshake’ out of transmission. Al in all I had to flush it 14…
Broken down :-(
:Last night, while motorsailing to our next anchorage at Puenta de Espato all of sudden my transmission started to slip.At first I was thinking I got a fouled propeller as we were just passing some net’s floaters. Since it was…
Cabo de Palos
Last night we anchored at Cabo de Palos. As usual, a line of high rise condos along the coast.
A stroll through Cartagena, Spain.
Along Spanish coast.
This Sunday we cast off from Almerimar and started our further journey up the Spanish coast. Initially the weather was very nice with winds around 3-5 on Beaufort scale so we were able to sail along pretty comfortably with the…