Sailing The Dream | Sailing The Mediterranean Sea

SAILING THE MEDITERRANEAN SEA

The unique experience of crossing such a busy Sea, the preparation, routes and challenges...

In between the South of Europe and the North of Africa, so much to explore.

Ana

Sailing from Gibraltar to Lisbon, Portugal - Aka Orcas Lane!

Moment of panic, were they Orcas or just dolphins? Two more sightings with the binoculars confirmed they were Orcas coming in our direction

Ana

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!

Ana

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)

Ana

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

Ana

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

Ana

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

Ana

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

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2020 Fuel, engine hours & nautical miles summary

So what do we have to say about our favourite taboo subject, that no one really wants to discuss, in the year of 2020? Seems like...

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2020 Budget

The time spent in lockdowns and repairs under insurance in cheap or affordable countries allowed us to keep the budget controlled.