The sail from Lanzarote to Tenerife didn’t waste any of the eye wateringly expensive diesel. We sailed the whole way and made good time. We’d booked into Santa Cruz at the North West of the Island. I didn’t know what to expect of Santa Cruz, but it immediately felt at ease. All you could ever …
Captains Blog 45 – Are we Nearly There Yet?
My first thought when writing this was to give an overview of all the things that have been refurbished, repaired, renewed, discarded and added during the Autumn, Winter and Spring months. That would be too dull, so let’s just say that I spent the dark months trying to improve Elice, well, the inside anyway. Now …
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Captains Blog 44 – Winter is Coming
Well, it’s been a while eh! Since I last time I wrote one of these. I was still tanned and reasonably fit then, but now I’m a grey haired withered old hermit who occasionally pops his head out the cockpit, like a meercat on lookout, just to check the world is still alive. Life aboard …
The Queen is dead, Long Live the Queen!
Hi, well it’s been a while since we last updated everyone. I write this from the Amel in Cardiff, UK in February. We’ve been back in the UK for 9 months and have spent most of that time on the new boat, or She-Who-Will-Not-Be-Named if you prefer. The Captain is a methodical, thoughtful man. Who …
Captains Blog 43 – How’s this work again?
So, there we were at Cawsand, lolloping from side to side as we tried to rest, half reclined on the saloon seating, partially wedged beneath the dining table. By 9:30, we decided that if we were going to get some sleep we’d need to relocate. After a brief conflab with Whimsy, we were heading for …
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Big Day for Biscay
Baiona was a great anchorage not too far from civilisation and a set of LED navigation lights, though my old head torch enveloped in broken green glass still worked perfectly. New lights purchased and we headed off across the bay to anchor just off a beach. A nudist beach! Surely not in these temperatures? Full …
Captains Blog 18 Journey to the end of the earth, or Europe at least!
The weather was fine but with little wind the day we left Ayamonte for Mazagon. We arrived early evening and tied alongside the bouncy visitor pontoon. It was spookily quiet so the decision was made to find and empty mooring and sneak on. The following morning, we booked in with one poor bloke, juggling multiple …
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Tea with the tooled-up lawyers
We met up with the very lovely Pat & Deb, who we met in France. There's a Captains blog about the impressive tool kit somewhere on here!
There’s no place like home 👠ðŸ‘
Merry Christmas everyone, We've been back in Blighty for just over a week now and on a mad rush around the UK visiting friends and family. Not to mention getting some fixes of our much missed UK goodies (mince pies, chocolate, coffee, pizza & poached eggs for starters!). The lovely Katy & Paul have endured …
Our Big Boaty Adventure 