Entries from 'Sailing'
Crawling Up the Spanish Coast
We left Cartagena, Spain two days after Christmas and started making our way up the Spanish coast with the ultimate destination being Barcelona. Although Southeastern Spain has a very mild winter climate, it’s still pretty cold when you live on a boat! We were spoiled the first year of our trip and essentially had a…
Christmas in Cartagena
We left Gibraltar with a bang and a flash, in the midst of a thunderstorm. After the storm passed our stern, we took our electronics out of the oven and proceeded on. We took our time day-sailing up the coast until we got to the marina in Ayamonte, Spain – by far the least…
The Rock
We had a very calm passage to Gibraltar from Spain. We had no wind so we motored the entire way, and the sea was entirely calm. It was an overnight sail and we entered the Straits of Gibraltar as the sun was rising. To our right was Africa and to our left was Europe. The…
Morocco: Then and Now
(Editor’s Note: The photos posted in this blog are from 1995 and 2014. Can you tell the difference?) Darold and I traveled to Morocco twenty years ago and found it a beautiful, exotic and friendly place. When we decided to take a side trip there to show Dante, we wondered how different it would seem…
Sail Through a Gale to Spain
We were lucky with our Atlantic crossing and we knew it. The weather treated us well. We avoided hurricanes. We avoided large low pressure systems. We had a good captain, a prepared crew and luck on our side. In fact, we had to deal more with little to now wind more than we had to…
Darold