Frederieke
Crossing to Marseille
Our route from Enseñada sa Costera to the northern most tip of Mallorca the next day was again comprised of a long procession of [...]
Mallorca
Two days later, an eleven-hour sail had us across the passage between Ibiza and Mallorca, the main island in the Balearics, and arriving at [...]
Ibiza
None too early the next morning we slipped our mooring and ambled up the eastern coast of Ibiza, passing by the city of Ibiza [...]
Off to Ibiza
Surprisingly, our very cunning plan of giving the easterly winds the slip near Gibraltar had worked and we were now far enough north of [...]
Sailing along the Costa del Sol
Mediterranean winds Our next hop was to the Balearic Islands. However, once again, we were now on a schedule; we had a date with [...]
Gibraltar
La Linea was hot despite the wind coming in from the Strait. Off Yuma’s starboard quarter as we moored up the Rock of Gibraltar [...]
Trafalgar, tuna and tuna nets
Once the winds finally died down a bit, we left Chipiona for Barbate, together with a few other sailing yachts including Marcus and his [...]
The joys of discovering a small town
We had hoped to make Cádiz our next stop, but with bad weather approaching and a regatta on over the next couple of days, [...]
From Portugal back to Spain
The Algarve From our last anchorage it was a short hop under cliffs eroded into arches, caverns and pillars and into the harbour at [...]
Rounding Portugal’s southwest coast
Having enjoyed a good taste of what Lisbon and its satellite beach towns had to offer, it was time to get back under way. [...]