Dawnbreaker

Dear Friends and Relatives, I know it's been sometime since my last Travelblog and hopefully I will get up todate before Lars and I start again at the end of March. Firstly, if I missed anyone with Christmas and New Year wishes, I apologies. I forgot my address book on the boat when we left in November and didn't have any addresses at all, so, SORRY and hope everyone had a fantastic Christmas and New Year. At the moment we are in Malta with our eldest son Peter and Anna his wife to-be. On our arrival we found that the gang-plank that Lars had worked on for over a week was in pieces because of some Very Large ship that had been moored beside us and it squashed our gang-plank and damaged the back of our ... read more

Dear relative and friends, Hopefully I will try and finish our 2008 trip in the next couple of weeks, hope you enjoy our travels. Sorry it has taken so long. Sunday 19th October Port de Plaisance - Ajaccio Tino Rossi Our friends Jo and Chris have left us and we decide that it's better to continue our journey as fast as possible, as we have heard that storms are on their way and in November we are to pick up a couple of friends in Rome. On the East side of Corsica there are very few harbours or bays to shelter in and we don't want to be caught out in a storm, especially me. I'm not a fan of hard weather. Arrival in Ancien Port de Chiavari. We didn't get very far but we are ... read more

Dear family and friends, If anyone is interested in our Med. trip so far (from 22nd May to 31sy August) check out Dawnbreaker.se, our Home Page, and go into Forum + photo’s or Blog. It’s all there so far. Before we went home Lars and I visited Avignon and had a lovely days visiting the sights on one of those trains that go around the town. We took some lovely photo’s that we would like to share with you. ... read more

26th June Thursday - 18.30pm Arrival in Lisbon - Portugal - Doca de Alcântera Harbour Trip: 269 nmiles Log: 19797 After checking in with the Harbour Master and filling in all the forms required there wasn’t much of the day left. It’s hot and sticky with no wind at all in the harbour. Everyone is tired after sailing in shifts most of the night so all that’s left of today is a good shower and an even better meal. It seems that over the past 10 years alot of the larger harbours have expanded, not just in Europe but also in England. Also, mostly all of what was either Docks or Fishing Fleet harbours have now been converted into extreamly lovely apartment buildings with restaurants and shops. The Harbours themselves have expanded to take even more ... read more

12th June Thursday Cowes (Isle of Wight) - Portland Harbour/Castle Cove Departure 7.50am Cloudly and misty this morning at 5.30am when I was awake. I had hoped that it would be clear when we left Cowes but it started raining instead. We had to let the Ferry “ Red Funnel” from Southamton through first then we could leave. Sails up at 8.25am. We had all the sails up, it seems ages since we had all the sails up. We are doing 9-11 kts which isn’t bad. Still cloudy but the sun is trying. The sun came out at 9am. Winds have died down as we approach the main land. 11.25am approx, a boat came zooming towards us and asked us to change course to 240 degrees as we were going through a Naval Exercise Range. We ... read more