Back to the Lerins Islands and a Surprise at Cannes!
We left Golfe-Juan on the 23rd August to sail the short 5NM’s to the Lerins Islands where we stopped briefly on our way through but never got the opportunity to go ashore.This time the...
"The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails." — William Arthur Ward, Writer
by Chantal & David · Published September 7, 2024 · Last modified January 21, 2025
We left Golfe-Juan on the 23rd August to sail the short 5NM’s to the Lerins Islands where we stopped briefly on our way through but never got the opportunity to go ashore.This time the...
Once again we find ourselves having to apologise for the delay in posting this, time just ran away, and we are actually back home! So back to the 5th September, it was now time...
On the 29th August we sailed across to the island of Dhiaporos on the North East Coast of Sinthonia. This is a tiny heavily indented island, a Sailor’s paradise for finding protected bays from...
On the 26th August, after a peaceful night at anchor back in Porto Koufo we sailed around the southern tip of Sithonia, around to the other side, stopping in a cove off a place...
So on the 15th August, with Seaclusion all locked up and a small overnight bag packed, we jumped in a taxi to the airport to pick up our hire car for 2 days. Beggars...
by Chantal & David · Published June 19, 2018 · Last modified January 27, 2020
Well, after 2 failed attempts to leave Pythagoria on Samos, (1st return requiring a new exhaust manifold, 2nd to unjam our mainsail, the jam being at the top of the mast), our 3rd attempt...
2017 / Greece - The Dodecanese
by Chantal & David · Published September 20, 2017 · Last modified January 27, 2020
On the 30th August we left the tiny island of Tilos heading 24 miles east to Symi, happily sailing in on a reefed beam reach in a north westerly 5 gusting 6 with 2...
2017 / Greece - The Dodecanese
by Chantal & David · Published September 3, 2017 · Last modified January 27, 2020
We left Kos on the 25th August and had a mixed but still great sail, the winds going from a W4, to dead calm and back up to a NW4, to the island of...
2017 / Greece - The Dodecanese
by Chantal & David · Published August 29, 2017 · Last modified January 27, 2020
After arriving on the island of Samos just as the Meltemi started and a rather challenging mooring onto the town quay in Pythagorion, one of the first things you notice is that the island...