014,013

Nautical Miles

Visited Territories

Albania Balearic Corsica Croatia France Gibraltar Greece Italy Madeira Malta Montenegro Morocco Portugal Sardinia Sicily Spain Tunisia Turkey

A Journey across the Mediterranean - East to West
Turkey to Portugal in less than 60 days

Sailing West along the coastline of Southern Europe - France to Gibraltar

Sailing The Dream

May 11

Sailing West along the coastline of Southern Europe - France to Gibraltar

Eyes glued on the water, Ella going crazy and there it was a huge whale surfacing 50-100 meters to our starboard!

Crossing the Bonifacio Strait and making way to mainland France

Sailing The Dream

Apr 22

Crossing the Bonifacio Strait and making way to mainland France

We took a sneaky short cut exiting the Ajaccio gulf by passing in between the Iles Sanguinaires (the Bloodthirsty islands, interesting name)

Sailing The Dream

Apr 16

Crossing the Tyrrhenian

The boom jumped further to port side with a slam and stayed in that position. The German Mainsheet system looked weird but it was not broken

Sailing The Dream

Apr 14

Crossing the Messina Strait

At this point we experienced 3 knots of current against us. Running the engine at 2000RPMs we were only doing slightly above 3knots of speed

Sailing The Dream

Apr 7

Crossing the Ionian

Think it’s safe to say that at this point we both felt this was more than we had bargain for, the winds were way stronger than forecasted

Sailing The Dream

Apr 2

Crossing the Aegean

I woke up due to the rolling swell and feeling really cold. John was furling the Jib, the winds had just picked up that extra notch

Building a hardtop at anchor

Building a hardtop - stainless steel works and installation of equipment (part 5)

Sailing The Dream

Mar 27

Building a hardtop - stainless steel works and installation of equipment (part 5)

They were quite surprised that John and I could lift it reasonably easily just the two of us

Building a hardtop - joining the pieces and painting (part 4)

Ana

Feb 25

Building a hardtop - joining the pieces and painting (part 4)

With a plan in mind, we prepared a set of lines and straps, arranged in a way that allowed us to flip the 3.8x3.8m hardtop

Ana

Feb 19

Building a hardtop - fairing (part 3)

Once all the fibreglassing for both pieces was completed it was time to start working on preparing for fairing and primer painting.

Building a hardtop - the construction (part 2)

Ana

Feb 12

Building a hardtop - the construction (part 2)

With the decision of building the Bimini on the foredeck, we wasted no time while still waiting for a few work supplies we built a mockup

Building a hardtop - the idea, concept and material choices (part 1)

Ana

Feb 4

Building a hardtop - the idea, concept and material choices (part 1)

After living on board for four years, we became more and more convinced that a rigid Bimini was one of the items that would improve our life

The Crew

John
The Captain

The voice of reason (sometimes), the chef and handyman that will keep the girls with full tummies at all times and out of trouble.

Every men's envy, he has a brunette and a blonde at his feet!

Ana

Co-Captain

Responsible for the vessel provisioning, internet resources and brilliant ideas that sometimes don't shine that much.

Ella's maid and John's soul mate.

Ella

Watch Dog

The almighty guardian of the vessel, scared of everything, capable of the most violent acts of love and submission.

Any stranger will be kept at bay by the demands of attention, belly rubs and cuddles.

014,013

Nautical Miles

Visited Territories

A Journey across the Mediterranean - East to West Turkey to Portugal in less than 60 days

Sailing West along the coastline of Southern Europe - France to Gibraltar

Crossing the Bonifacio Strait and making way to mainland France

Crossing the Tyrrhenian

Crossing the Messina Strait

Crossing the Ionian

Crossing the Aegean

Building a hardtop at anchor

Building a hardtop - stainless steel works and installation of equipment (part 5)

Building a hardtop - joining the pieces and painting (part 4)

Building a hardtop - fairing (part 3)

Building a hardtop - the construction (part 2)

Building a hardtop - the idea, concept and material choices (part 1)

The Crew

John The Captain

Ana

Co-Captain

Ella

Watch Dog

A Journey across the Mediterranean - East to West
Turkey to Portugal in less than 60 days

John
The Captain