Ease The MainWith Benevento and its crew

    We coastal hopped down from the island of Menorca to Mallorca, spending a rolling night in an exposed anchorage, then landing in Palma Bay.  We were so excited to see our friends aboard Safari, a family we had met in the San Blas Islands.  The Safari crew are only one of a handful…

We were anchored in the tight squeeze of Mahon, Menorca and a French boat come in to the already-packed area looking for a spot.  He began to slowly circle the anchorage, coming around our stern on the outside edge.  He slowly began to circle us when he, well…stopped.  The motor was running but there was…

                Originally, our plan for cruising the Med was, upon arrival in the waters, go East as far as Turkey as quickly as possible and then head slowly back to Gibraltar, through Greece, Italy, France and Spain along the way. Alas, a sailor’s plans are made in the…

We don’t know what we did to piss them off, but the Gods have not been happy with us ever since we arrived in Greece.  It couldn’t have been the lack of knowledge about Greek history; one Greek shopkeeper told Dante that he knew more about Ancient Greece than most of the population.  Perhaps we’d…

A 26-hour run from Bari, Italy to Corfu, Greece was fairly uneventful and with the wind behind us (well what wind there was).  Being a foolish captain I tempted fate by commenting to Jennifer, “hey we have nothing to fix after this passage!” – Should have kept my mouth shut.  When we went to drop…