Offshore sailing
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We’ve been in San Remo for over two months, and I’m starting to get used to some of the strange Italian ways. English is not widely spoken, so many things get a bit lost in translation. Thank goodness for Google Translate. Here are a few examples of day to day life that made me completely…
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We thought long and hard about this next leg of our journey. It is possible and reasonably safe to sail up the Red Sea at the moment…(although we could do without Trump bombing Yemen while we were in the vicinity.) More cruisers are choosing this route now than heading down to South Africa. We sailed…
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Maldives remain a bucket-list destination for so many people. As a sailor, I expected it to be like a trip to a Pacific Island nation, with lots of sandy little islands, palm trees, a local village, some great snorkeling and diving, and a relaxed, friendly atmosphere geared around visitors. It really wasn’t. There’s no denying that…
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Slack…I haven’t written a blog since October. Except I’ve not really been slack, in a nutshell since October we’ve sailed from Langkawi to Phuket, we spent a month up there cruising the national parks and the islands north of Phuket. I successfully completed my STCW course at the Gallileo Maritime Academy at Yacht Haven, Phuket…
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We’re enjoying 18 degrees instead of 33 degrees, sleeping with a blanket and duvet, instead of lying in a puddle of sweat. I’m wearing jumpers and long trousers, not shorts and teeshirts, and waking up to the song of tui, not hornbills and Macaque monkeys. We’re back in Auckland until January, and it was so…
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My predictions about a shitty trip to Langkawi were spot on! We checked out of Batam (Nongsa Point Marina) for the 430nm trip to Lankawi with plans to anchor each night, but the wind was blowing from the wrong direction, and none of the recommended anchorages provided any protection from the decent swell. So it…
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The landscape in Eastern Indonesia has consisted of dry brown islands and clear blue skies. Then it changed as we neared the equator to lush jungle covered islands and massive puffy cumulus clouds that tend to drop their load in the evening in the form of a cooling squall. We haven’t set foot on land…
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We’ve sailed 600nm in the last week! We’ve got our ears pinned back and making tracks for Langkawi. After our overnight stop at Gili Air and an excellent pizza ashore with all the young European tourists, we set sail for Barwean Island, approximately 250nm (two nights at sea). We enjoyed a rest day at that…
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Attitude is the difference between an ordeal and an adventure. Or at least that’s what I’m telling myself! The passage to Timor was hot and noisy, motoring nearly all the way with virtually no wind. As we turned into the Salat Semau Strait, trying to negotiate fish farm buoys and ships, we got up to…
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With any luck (but actually through good planning), by the time this blog post goes live next Monday, we will have made landfall in Kupang. I hope to be sitting on solid land enjoying a Bintang. Here is an insight into what we eat and how we prepare ourselves for a number of days at…
Cruising Innocenti 