The Plan 2024This year we are ready to finally make that jump across the Atlantic. We will be travelling through the Gibraltar Strait from Spain and head to the Canary Islands. All the upgrades are completed on the boat including a watermaker. Mid December we plan to be in Cabo Verde to start the Atlantic adventure.
Checked out of Greece but actually didn't leave right away as usual tried to wait for some wind to sail away.......so we spent a few days on the Northern Greek Island of Eriekoussa and waited for some decent weather to push us up the coast to Montenegro. While we were...
There are so many places to see in the Cyclades Islands and we did see a lot. But, the clock is starting to tick a little faster and we need to make some definite plans to exit Greece. Our 90 days is drawing to an end. Need to start heading west so that we end up in...
Had a terrific time for another week in Sitia, while we waited for the weather to start cooperating with us. We dined out a couple of times at the local restaurants that dot around the small harbour, filled with tourists that start their evening around 10pm and finish...
After the naming ceremony we needed to check out of Leros, the crazy part of sailing here in Greece is that every port we go into and out of requires a check-in and then a check-out (because we are a non EU vessel), Who is on the boat (passports required),...
In our last post we updated you on arriving at the boat and discovering the amount of work that we needed to get done in order to launch MAD 2. Overall the work was done in a timely manner according to Greek standards, and done very well. They seem to leave everything...
Finally after 15 months Jacqui and I finally meet again,... in Athens. Arrived about an hour apart and first things first (a stiffling 37 degrees), hugs, collect the bags, get a SIM card for each of us and then book a COVID test for our trip to Leros in 2 days. We had...
