North Brittany to South Brittany via the Channel du Four and the Raz de Sein. We left Guernsey on the 18th of June and had planned to sail down to St Quay as it offers all weather and tide access and we thought it was going to be a pretty easy place to hit the coast and then make our way along the North Brittany coast to West and then South Brittany. We had thought about going to St Malo which was further east but were a bit reticent for some reason, not quite sure why as we had been told by so many people how nice it was. I guess one of the main reasons was that St Quay was going to be a lot less distance to cover for Luke on his first ever ... read more

A very happy new year to everyone. We have purchased our new home for 2009, a yacht called Sunboy and we leave Australia on the 18 March to head to Hamble Le Rice, just south of Southampton in England where we begin a whole new adventure. At this point in time, we dont know exactly where we will head to for the northern european summer, whether it is up to the Baltic Sea or head south for Morocco, we will just wait and see. First off, we hope to spend a couple of months sailing around the south of England and then across to France and cruise around the Channel Islands and Brittany, we shall see. At this point in time, we are not sure how long we will be away for, that is in the ... read more

Hello from Samobor, (V.O.T.I.T.C to the west of Zagreb, north Croatia) Hello Blogettes, I am sitting up in the very comfortable family apartment at the Hotel Livadic in the township of Samobor, details of which will follow in due course. Well after the Croatian National Army and Navy were called in to get me off the boat, we made land again and settled up our boat account and took stock of the fact that somehow we had to make our way from Sukosan to Zagreb where we had to catch a flight on the 14th of May, back to Amsterdam via Paris. That was five days away and apart from thinking about going to the Plitviska National Park, we had no idea whatsoever as to what we were going to do for the next few days. ... read more

Blogging from Split 5 May 2008 Hello everyone, we are currently in the ACI Marina in Split Harbour having arrived here yesterday afternoon. Taking up from our last blog, we bunkered down in Vbroska for the morning and inquired about hiring some bikes from our mate the Harbourmaster who the cruising guide advised was the friendliest and most helpful harbourmaster in all of Croatia - the guide wasn’t wrong. Nothing was a problem to him and shortly after, the bike shop owner arrived at the boat and 4 high quality mountain bikes were ours from 12 noon to 8.00pm for 40 Kuna each (about $10.00). We loaded up the back pack with some water, bananas and choc chip biscuits then after a couple of practice circuits around the road near the boat, we headed off. The ... read more

Hello from Korcula Town on Korcula Island Sorry we have not blogged for some time, I think in fact it is the longest blog break of the trip. Simple fact is we have been unable to get decent internet access since we left Trogir and arrived in Korcula Town. So, just to jog your blog memories, we last wrote to you at length from Trogir which was on the mainland just north of Split. Our last day/night in Trogir was spent bunkering down out of the cold and wet and we left very early on the morning of the 16th heading south for the Island of Vis. The girls were still asleep and Debs and I got underway as we had a 30+ nautical mile passage ahead of us. We had a terrible fright with a ... read more