Flying Fish Life
Exploring the world on a Leopard 44 catamaran
Category: Friends and Merriment
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August 2024
Escaping the Mediterranean heat in the best ways possible Up she went. Took a couple of hours, but eventually she was settled securely on the hard and ready for a few weeks of beautification. We tied up the many loose ends, including removing our sail bag for its zipper replacement and mcgyvering a protective UV…
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May 2024
Season 2 is off and running! I’m trying to be positive! Season 2 started in late April again this year, and all winter long we had planned to start out with a trip to Kušadasi port, Türkiye, partly to get the Fish out of the EU for a bit to restart our VAT clock. (If…
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Cappadocia, finally
Before we caught the “let’s explore Lesvos before it’s too late” bug, we came down with a serious case of “we have GOT to see Cappadocia.” Back in November, soon after we’d arrived in Mytlini, we talked to Karina and Tim (Matilda) about going together – what’s more fun than a group road trip? Now…
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April 2024 – Pre-Season Kick-Off, Round 2
In which we get our asses in gear. Last year at this time we were frantically working through boat maintenance projects, ticking off the to do list items, all while completely terrified about what lay ahead of us. A year later we’re in the same boat (see what I did there?) except for the terror.…
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September 2023 – Part II
In which things get better. We spent enough time the morning after Bailey and Michael arrived in Argostoli to see the turtles cruising the fishing boats on the town quay, do some serious provisioning, and check in and out with the Port Police. Then it was Eastward Ho! as fast as our engines would take…
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August 2023
Homeward bound It was hot in Denver too, but nothing like we’d had in Greece. We stayed with Peggy for a few days before driving my sister Laura’s car to Minnesota to meet Mia and Laura at our cottage on Lake L’Homme Dieu for the pre-wedding prep. My niece Megan and Nolan were to be…
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June-July 2023
The Season is officially ON. We headed for Lakka on Paxos the morning after Mia left and after an obscenely swelly night in the anchorage under the old fort in Corfu town, with mozzies feasting on our flesh the whole time. We got as far as Petriti, a good way down the southeast coast of…
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May 2023
THIS is what we’ve been waiting for? Or, Ah! THIS is what we’ve been waiting for! Sailing from Tivat to Greece takes a few days. Some just do an overnight passage and arrive 30 or so hours later in Corfu, thereby avoiding the whole checking in and out of Albania. But we wanted to be…
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April 2023
Pre-Season Kickoff We’ve been living on our boat here in Montenegro for a little over four months, and just in the last couple of weeks the marina has started, well, buzzing. Liveaboards who’ve been here for months and others who had the good sense to leave their boats here and spend the winter somewhere else…
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March 2023
Wait, it’s March already?? We finally made reservations to stay at the Porto Montenegro ski chalet in Kolašin the first weekend of March. Lift tickets were €25 for two days of skiing, and good quality rental equipment was available for even less. Felt safe – surely there would be enough snow, weren’t Claire and Ollie…
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February 2023 – The Rest
It had some redeeming features. Fortunately, February was also the month I got to get on an airplane and fly to Nairobi to spend a week with Peggy. For anyone who doesn’t know Peggy, she and I met in the Peace Corps in Sierra Leone in 1985 and have been best friends ever since. She…
