We left Rome on Friday 28th after spending 4 full days of maintenance isssues on the boat, well Robbie doing all the work, I got sick again after we went out for dinner with Peter and Heidi the night before they flew home to Germany for a week. Robbie has taken off the anchor winch …
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Capri 19 August 2015 We decided on an early start, Peter and Heidi picked us up in their duck at 8:00am to go exploring on the island of Capri. I had read another blog that said there was nowhere to leave your duck on the Southern side of Capri, and it was correct! The coast …
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Cetraro Italy 14 August 2015 We had a great passage from Tropea to Cetraro, 51 nautical miles, it was flat calm and very little wind all the way. We have started noticing a lot of floating “stuff” in the ocean. Today we saw a few plastic floaty toys and very sadly, a large dead turtle. …
We had a really calm crossing to Sicily, once we got closer to the coast we started seeing a lot of floating stuff in the water, plastic floating devices and one of them was a sun lounger, which I said I would like, so I drove the boat and Robbie managed to hook it …
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We spent from the 1st to the 4th August in Mandraki Marina, situated under the old fort in Old Corfu town. We spent the first two days on maintenance. Robbie serviced the main engine and the wing engine, and then spent about 10 hours replacing the main seal on the crankshaft on the Northern Lights …
After transiting the Corinth Canal we continued our journey west arriving at Ormiskos Andreaas, it was a long day we didn’t drop anchor until 6:00pm, but wow it was a beautiful bay, crystal clear water and there were only 2 deserted houses in the bay. We all had a swim and a good relax. The …