Barbados – The Grenadines – St Vincent

8th January 2020 – Barbados – The Grenadines – St Vincent It took a day or two to recover from the crossing, and there was no better place for our recovery than Barbados. After our arrival in Port St Charles, we spent a morning turning the boat from an ocean going vessel back into something …

Thursday 21st November – Canaries to Cape Verdes Islands

Thursday 21st November – Canaries to Cape Verdes Islands We set off from Tenerife bound for Cape Verdes bright and early on Saturday morning. Full of enthusiasm (and breakfast), we cast off around 8:30am into a light northerly breeze. We’d been expecting a light patch until we get clear of the island and it’s enormous …

Friday 15th November – Cruising the Canary Islands

After our Lagos – Lanzarote crossing, we arrived into a sheltered little anchorage at La Graciosa – a small island just north of Lanzarote’s mainland. We didn’t stay long – the lure of a marina with fresh food, hot showers where the water didn’t run out and dry land was just too strong, so we …

13th October 2019: Lisbon – Sines – Lagos – Canaries

13th October 2019: Lisbon – Sines – Lagos – Canaries After we left Éalú in Lisbon, we flew to the UK to visit family, and attend a wedding – thanks for having us Holly and Rob! We then flew to La Zenia, Spain, to see more family, before a spin up to Barcelona for some …

13th September – Leg 2: La Coruna to Lisbon

Since our last post, we seem to have crammed quite a lot in! After we had recovered in La Coruna from our Biscay crossing, we headed south – our first passage was a long-ish 80 miles down to Muros. We received a very warm welcome from Pedro in the marina, and we spent a couple …

16th August – Leg 1: Schull – La Coruna

After a very enjoyable week racing and socializing at the (in)famous Calves Week Regatta in Schull, Neilo met us on Sunday evening, and we were all set for an early morning departure to La Coruna. We left at 6am in a cool North Westerly breeze, which saw us shooting out past the Fastnet Rock in …

10th August – setting off, Calves Week, and final prep…..

We didn’t quite have the start we’d planned to our trip, and due to a family situation, I spent the first week of our planned trip at home with my family, while Marty did all the final jobs, and got the boat ready to leave. I flew back to Dublin on the evening of 29th …