Flying Fish Life
Exploring the world on a Leopard 44 catamaran
Category: Boat Projects
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February 2025
If it’s not one thing, it’s one thing. Marnie McCarthy Once back in St. Lucia we left almost immediately for Martinique, where we planned to spend a night in St. Pierre, the northernmost check-out place, then head to Guadeloupe. The best of plans. Then we blew out our parasail and our electric winch in one…
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October 2024 – Part I
Putting ourselves back together again. After the Crossing From Hell (Sardinia to Mallorca), what was needed was a good dose of family, a familiar environment, good food and plenty of it. We spent over a week in the harbor at Porto Pollenҫa, and with my sister Molly and her Mallorquín husband Henry down the road…
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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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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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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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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…
