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Retirement Is Fun!
“Twenty years from now, you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do, than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.”
Mark Twain
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Caribbean Leeward Islands: Antigua to Guadeloupe.
We arrived in Antigua on Saturday the 11th January 2020. This was the weather the day before our landfall: And this was the weather the day after our landfall: Antigua and Barbuda is a state in the West Indies consisting of the two main islands of Antigua and Barbuda...
North Atlantic Crossing
We cast off from the marina in Las Palmas on the 18th December with the prospect of little wind for the first 24 hours, but hopefully a calmer sea than the swells that had been rolling in from the north-west for the previous two days. There was some wind, which...
The Canary Islands.
The distance from Agadir in Morocco to the Canary Islands is about 220 nm, so if we could average about 6 knots over this distance, we should be able to do the distance in about 37 hours. We arranged with the Moroccan Border Police, to check out at 7am on Monday the...
Morocco
Annie decided she had enough of the cold weather, so went to Carrefour in La Linea to buy us a 1,500 W fan heater. On Tuesday 19th November, we motored out of Alcaidesa Marina in La Linea next to Gibraltar, to catch the outgoing tide, if any, to cross the Gibraltar...
Spain: Cartagena to Gibraltar.
Cartagena was worth a three day visit. We were tied up in the marina while the westerly was blowing fiercely in the bay. We explored the town which has an abundance of public sculptures and visited the Roman theatre and the Forum precinct which dates back to the first...
Mediterranean Spain.
Back in the 80’s when we were big into board and wave sailing, Hyeres in France, was synonymous with speed sailing on slalom boards. We have figured out why - Hyeres, just east of Toulon, is on the edge of the Golfe du Lion, known for the Mistral winds that blows down...