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We arrived in Porto Paulo on 6/17 and spent 2 nights there.  That was the best anchoring location we have had from a view and comfort perspective.   There are 2 issues when anchoring: where the wind is coming from (Ideally you want the wind to be pushing you away from the shore) and where theContinue reading “Sailing across the south and east of Sicily 6/25/21”

Yesterday we left Marina di Ragusa to finally start making our way to Greece and then Turkey.  Our contract there was actually finished at the end of May, but because of dredging we couldn’t get back in (hence the previous trip to Syracuse) so they gave us 7 free days in June.  We had toContinue reading “Leaving Marina di Ragusa 6/18/21”

It was like living in a toy! I love kids and especially because they provide an excellent excuse to keep playing with toys, dollhouses and playmobiles and watching animation movies, living in a boat is so much fun! You keep admiring the ingenuity of the people who designed the functionality of the living quarters! everythingContinue reading “…when we started living on the boat!”

I was so seasick that I remember very little from the 8 hour trip to Malta from Marina di Ragusa, Sicily. Living on the boat since December, by May I got so used to living on board that I developed a false sense of “safety and stability” and it didn’t even enter my brain thatContinue reading “…when we sailed to Malta!”

It was on my birthday! On a sunny December day, we finally got at Marina Di Ragusa in Sicily after traveling for 2 days by car from Volos, Greece! When we left from Toronto, we shipped to Greece 11 boxes of our “we cannot live without” things (which surprisingly comprised mainly of books and tools)Continue reading “…when we got to the boat”