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Our 2012 cruising season has begun in earnest.  Ian’s impatience to be underway got the better of him a couple of weeks ago and, for the first time, he set off on a cruise without his loyal “rope bitch”.  I had …

Over the winter months Ian made one or two trips to Mad Sunday, including supervising the lift-out for anti-fouling maintenance which was undertaken most proficiently,by Rizzardi, at the Porto Turistico di Roma. So, with MS all gleaming and p…

Over the winter months Ian made one or two trips to Mad Sunday, including supervising the lift-out for anti-fouling maintenance which was undertaken most proficiently,by Rizzardi, at the Porto Turistico di Roma. So, with MS all gleaming and p…

1st January 2012
Arriving at Ponza we found the place all but deserted.  The town looked quite “down-at-heel” in its winter garb, devoid of tourists and activity to disguise the shabbiness.  The landscape, however, was beautiful and the o…

1st January 2012
Arriving at Ponza we found the place all but deserted.  The town looked quite “down-at-heel” in its winter garb, devoid of tourists and activity to disguise the shabbiness.  The landscape, however, was beautiful and the o…

On the 1st November we set our course for the Porto Turistico di Roma, an overnight passage away, and our over-winter port.  The crossing was uneventful and the marina staff helpful as we secured Mad Sunday in the light, but relentless, swell in t…

20th October 2011
Returning, after nearly 2 months, we were relieved and pleased to see Mad Sunday safe and sound, if a bit scruffy looking, covered as she was in red sand – there had obviously been some south-easterly winds!  After a day spent …