Spain
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 [...]
Avoiding Orcas
Sailing with dangerous animals In Australia, we have sailed for many years in waters inhabited by potentially dangerous animals such as estuarine crocodiles, various [...]
From Spain to Portugal
The next morning we were underway by 0700. With a brisk dawn breeze coming down from Vigo we were able to quickly make our [...]
The Spanish Rías
We left A Coruña in company with a couple of other boats, including Bojangles a Dutch boat that had been across the pontoon from [...]
A few days in ‘A Cidade de Cristal’
Arrival in A Coruña Most Northern European sailors cross the Bay of Biscay in one go from England, the Channel, or from Brittany and [...]