A Canarian Christmas
Getting into the holiday spirit is trickier in balmy weather. The days are not short, dark, and cold, our usual cues for building Christmas cheer. So we have to look […]
Author Archives: Paul Robertson
“Onto” The Canaries!
We left Lagos, Portugal, on November 14 and made the Canary Islands on November 18. We had considered leaving as early as November 11. We were keeping busy working […]
Readying for some LONG sails
Lagos Portugal, November 2015. We are in Lagos, Portugal, in the far southwest of Portugal. Africa sits directly below us. About six hundred miles down, just off Africa’s coast, lie the […]
A Coruña to Baiona, España
We enjoyed A Coruña, Spain, and were well taken care of there. We are members of the Ocean Cruising Club, a sort of floating yacht club, complete with its own […]
Crossing the Bay of Biscay, and Bienvenido a España!
We have crossed the Bay of Biscay, making A Coruña, Spain, on October 1. The trip was 361 nautical miles, done in two days and nine hours. One last comment about […]
BIENVENUE EN FRANCE! – AND THE YIN AND YANG OF CRUISING
When we left Marblehead eight years ago, we wrote our very first blog about the Yin and Yang of Sailing. It has become somewhat of a mantra that some parts of our trip […]
HELLO “DEAR OLD DARTMOUTH”
On September 19, we had several days of light winds forecast, and so we pushed out of Dover and headed down the English Channel, on an overnight sail, bound for […]
ACROSS THE THAMES ESTUARY TO DOVER — VIA HAWAII!
OK, contrary to the title of this entry, we didn’t sail any where near Hawaii, but bear with us for a moment. We have been berthed in Shotley, in southeast England, near […]
“ENGERLAND” AND THE WEDDING
On passage, we listen to a series of children’s stories about a rotter named “Mr. Gum.” One of his sidekicks, Billy William the Third, has a penchant for saying words […]
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