: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…
Cala de la Miel
We’ve just dropped our hook for tonight at a small and nice bay, Cala de la Miel. There’re some uncomfortable swells coming right through Southern bay opening. it is not going to be a very good sleep tonight; nice place…
Postcards from Gibraltar.
Gibraltar, one of the two Pillars of Hercules for Greeks, or the End of the World for Romans. Now it’s a vibrant EU economy, and one of the very few expanding, for that matter. Most of the British military is…
Here we come Gibraltar!
Leaving the beautiful Alicante, Spain this morning and getting under way for Gibraltar. Weather is not cooperating; hardly any wind and it is Westerly.
Sea passage from Port-Saint-Louis-du-Rhône, France to Alicante, Spain
A few pictures and a video from our latest passage. Under way somewhere in the Mediterranean. Autopilot belt broke on us. We anchored at Ampuriabrava on Bahia de Rosas.We spent a night there and in the morning we swapped…
Reached Alicante.
After 5 days at sea and almost 500 NM under the keel, at around 1100 on April 14, 2015 we reached Marina Alicante in Alicante Spain. Great passage with moderate to strong winds (25 kts). Got sea sick pretty quick.…