Our last visiting friend for the year – Chris O’Brien arrives today. Just happens to be the coldest day so far at 15d due to a front coming through – yet another gale warning. Will get back over 20in a day or two.Our cuts are healing and we hope to get…
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GALE IN DIDIM MARINA AND WE SUFFER SOME MINOR INJURIES
Normally our blog is about 1-2 weeks behind real time, but unusually we’re going to report on events of today. We have been close to the small Turkish seaside town of Altinkum, north of Bodrum for the last couple of weeks, and a major reason for this…
HEADING SOUTH ON TURKEY’S WEST COAST
September is a good month for cruising in Turkey, as the temperature is a little cooler, mostly in the high 20s the sea is still a warm 22-24, and the busier season is over. The weather does start to get a bit unstable though, and as I wrote this we we…
GALLIPOLI
As Envoy cruised up the narrow buoyed channel towards Ayvalik a RIB was heading directly bow-on towards us. When it was about 30m away we could see it was a Turkish Coastguard RIB, and the officers were signaling us to slow down. I checked our speed as…
THE ISLANDS OF SKYROS AND LESVOS, AND OUR RETURN TO TURKEY
While doing this posting I’ve also added photos to the last one.Skyros, the largest and eastern-most isle of the Northern Sporades, proved to be our favorite of the Group. It’s much quieter, and has much of the charm of the Cyclades with older styl…
WE GET A SEAWATER SHOWER IN BED, AND RETURN TO THE NORTHERN SPORADES
The morning of Doug & Sharon’s arrival we got a rude awakening. We were anchored off a village called Ay Yeoryios, and fishing boats up to about 20m work from there. About 0600 we hear a boat pass close by and then a deluge of water came through our …
WE GET A SEAWATER SHOWER IN BED, AND RETURN TO THE NORTHERN SPORADES
The morning of Doug & Sharon’s arrival we got a rude awakening. We were anchored off a village called Ay Yeoryios, and fishing boats up to about 20m work from there. About 0600 we hear a boat pass close by and then a deluge of water came through our …
EVIA ISLAND, THE GULF OF VOLOS AND SMOKE IN THE ENGINE ROOM
The island of Evia at about 90NM long and 10NM wide is Greece’s second largest island after Crete. Unlike Crete it’s very close to the mainland coast, being mostly about 5NM away, but at the town of Chalkis separated by a bridge only 39 metres wide…
EVIA ISLAND, THE GULF OF VOLOS AND SMOKE IN THE ENGINE ROOM
Photos will be added to this posting when we have better connectivity.
The island of Evia at about 90NM long and 10NM wide is Greece’s second largest island after Crete. Unlike Crete it’s very close to the mainland coast, being mostly about 5NM awa…
WE ASSIST A YACHT AGROUND ON A REEF IN THE NORTHERN SPORADES AND ENVOY GETS HER NAIAD STABILISERS REPAIRED
We’re well into our 2011 cruise now with over 1,100NM covered. Summer has set in with daytime temperatures of about 36d, and the seawater at 27d. Fortunately the humidity is not high here, which makes the heat manageable.The Northern Sporades group c…
