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Pacific Costa Rica (and more Panama) 2010

Golfito - Panama City - MesoPacific coast islands

September 05, 2010: Eventually there will be more details but today Tom (my eldest nephew) and his girlfriend, Rosie, arrived in Panama City on the overnight bus from David.  They are back-packing around Panama, Costa Rica, and Nicaragua and after a week on the Caribbean coast and in Boquete they have joined us for a few days on the boat.  We plan to head to Las Perlas tomorrow for a few nights before re... » read more

Idling in the Ionian on IDA, May 2010

Sivota - Spartachori - Kioni - Frikes - Vathi - Ligia - Parga - Mongonissi - Gaios - Lakka - Mourtos - Sagiadah - Plataria

September 04, 2010: Tonking along under engine, thinking can we stay out long enough for the afternoon wind to pick up?Not really we have to be off the boat by 9 am tomorrow and need to pack everything, cram the dinghy back in the locker, and clean the boat so most of that need to be done this afternoon.Coming into Plateria bay there seem to be a lot of boats around but then we know that there are three flotillas ... » read more

West Coast and Beyond

We are taking a year off from work to sail the Pacific. Our route will take us from Olympia, Washington to Mexico. In the Spring of 2011, we will either travel to French Polynes...

September 03, 2010: Michael: The crew assembled August 8, 2010 in Port Angeles to begin the first leg of the journey. This included my son, Angus Angermeyer, Alex Jones, Brendan Fahey and Larry Hightower. Alex and Brendan are accomplished dinghy racers having sailed for the University of Washington. Angus was at the helm almost before he was speaking in complete sentences and has blue water experience. Larry ... » read more

Auspray Adventures

Starting at Port Douglas we aim to travel south, exploring the various island clusters between here and the Whitsundays. Towards the end of Summer we plan to backtrack and trav...

September 03, 2010: Today we thought it would be a good idea to make the hike to the highest part of the island to retrace Captain Cook’s path when he was looking for a safe passage through the Great Barrier Reef. We met on the beach at 8am.  Jan and Brian from ‘Hooks’, Alison and Natasha from ‘Kalida’ and the Davies family minus Mahnie who was catching up on schoolwork.&nbs... » read more

ChrisGFandango's trip to the Med

Porthmadog/Fishguard/Milford/Padstow/ Penzance/Falmouth/Plymouth/Chichester/ Brighton/Le Havre/French Canals/ Port St Louis/Golfe Du Lion/Spain/portugal/French Italian Rivier...

September 02, 2010: We had spent the last three days under the shadow of a walnut tree, its fruit still hanging within the branches; once the fruits mature they shed their fruit in time for Christmas.I opened a couple of windfalls and found inside the green conker like skin, flesh containing a yellow die which stains and within this the immature kernel, they weren’t edible so no point in picking them, maybe ... » read more

Amber Sand transits Turkey

September 02, 2010: Motored across the millpond from Greece to Turkey picking up the sea breeze from Atabol Burnu then enjoying a gentle sail up Hisaronu Korfezi in broad reaches to Kuyulu Buku, finding shelter, peace and quiet. » read more

Charon's trip north.

Charon departed Tasmania (Launceston) on May 31st - determined to head off before winter set in. Taking on crew, we had a decent trip across Bass Strait and arrived in Batemans ...

September 02, 2010: We are sitting out bad weather again in Wyee bay in the south of Lake Macquarie. A gale warning – but it hasn’t blown over 2 knots all day. Raining and damp. Wendy has made bread and I have spent the day on the laptop. The local mental home and former asylum is to our south – we initially thought it was a resort as it was floodlit at night – but this one has beautiful ol... » read more

Ionian to Turkey 2010

Prevesa - Ionian - Corinth Canal - Peloponnisos - Cyclades - Dodecanese - Turkish coast from Kusadasi to Finike

September 01, 2010: Lydia left the Hospital on Monday 10 August with he right arm in a banage with a cast under her arm to stop her bending the elbow or wrist.Tuesday 11 August as arranged we left Port Goeche and motored to Yacht Classic in Fethiye. Banuhan had kindly arranged for us to use her berth which is along side to make it easy to berth and also for Lydia to get on and off Silver Lady using the boarding ga... » read more

Retirement on 'Endeavour'

Pwllheli-Milford Haven-Padstow-South Coast of England-Weymouth-LeHavre-French canals- Paris-Port St. Louis-CoteD'Azur-Corsica-Elba-Rome-Italy-Greece-Croatia-Turkey-Cyprus-Greece...

August 31, 2010: We were on the first bus at 8 a.m. to Marmaris this morning and got off at the Cruise Port.  There was a long queue waiting to get boarding cards when we arrived about 8.15 a.m.  The security police on the gate checked our passports before entering.  After obtaining our boarding cards, we then joined another long queue to passport control before eventually getting on the catamara... » read more

Colin & Sue's Gap year (or two)

Picked up Hilda May in Gruissan, S France in April 2009. Headed across med to Greece and in 2010 plan to explore Southern Ionian, Pelopponese, and head across to Turkey in Sep...

August 30, 2010: » read more