Flying Fish Life
Exploring the world on a Leopard 44 catamaran
Category: Weather
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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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October 2023
The home stretch. Peggy’s departure signaled the end of our lollygagging and the beginning of our efforts to get to Mytilini on or about November 1st. Because of an unavoidable stop we needed to make in Naxos while Peter went to Montenegro, we knew we were going to have to move almost every day to…
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February 2023: The Bora
“Never seen anything like it” every Old Salt within 200 miles of Tivat Let’s start with The Bora, shall we? From my journal, February 4th: Well, the Bora blew in tonight. Like a freight train coming down the tracks, sparks flying, whistle blowing. I was sitting on the Front Porch this afternoon playing games on…
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January 2023
You will be lulled into a false sense of security…. Isn’t it beautiful? It really was! Sunny, warm, glassy water, and the sense of peace and contentment that descends when you should really know better. Oooops. But it was fiiiine. (I can say that now, in April, because February was worse. Anything we encounter from…
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November 2022
Welcome to Monetenegro. You will not see the sun this month. We made it! After an admittedly hellish six months of preparation, we’re here, and we’re “liveaboards” on our very own boat. Since it’s now April, this is an effort to bring our adventures up to date. Bear with me as I try to summarize…
