Antigua, and English Harbour in particular, is a boaters’ Mecca around the the Caribbean. And, for sure, our favorite place to hang around with our vessel. From 1725 until 1845, English Harbour had been the location of the strong English…
Îles des Saintes and Guadeloupe
Îles des Saintes The passage from Dominica to Îles des Saintes is short. After just a few hours, we could spot the islands with the island of Guadeloupe in the background. Îles des Saintes is a group of small…
Dominica
Roseau We got some greatest sailing this day! There was a broad reach at around 15 knots of wind and a smooth sea so we sailed at around 7-8 knots with hardly any heel! Soon, we spotted the outline of…
Martinique
After a great stay at the Rodney Bay Marina, on January 12, we finally cast off their dock and motored out to the anchorage in the bay itself. Rodney Bay is a nice and well protected anchorage, very popular with…
St. Lucia
After we arrived to Rodney Bay Marina, we had to fill out customs and immigration forms at the marina office and then took a look around. There was a small market, a few restaurants, and even a pool at the…
Atlantic Crossing – Lanzarote to St. Lucia
Within moments of leaving the marina and setting sail, our boat was immediately flanked on both sides by a pod of dolphins (video left). They jumped and swam alongside us for practically an hour while we gained speed and made…
Lanzarote, Spain – Canary Islands
We finally reached Lanzarote in mid November on the 24th and docked in Marina Rubicon in the southern part of the island. Immediately, we had the batteries checked. Unfortunately, the marina electrician wasn’t able to figure out what was the…
Gibraltar with Wojtek and Andrzej
After two short hops with an overnight anchoring at Lagos Bay, we reached Gibraltar or rather its Spanish counterpart, La Línea de la Concepción. We docked at Alcaidesa Marina on November 1st, 2019. The stopover there was much needed as…
Lisbon
In the morning of the October 5th, 2019, we cast off of Lagos Bay to sail further north to Lisbon. By the afternoon of the next day, we reached Cascais, a town and marina at the northern shore of…
Lagos
Lagos, Portugal is located about mid-way sailing from Gibraltar to Lisbon. It’s a lovely town with a very busy marina, Marina de Lagos, which is used by most of the vessels plying between Northern Europe and the Mediterranean. We could…