Flying Fish Life
Exploring the world on a Leopard 44 catamaran
Category: Weather
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Gibraltar to Las Palmas
It was time to go. Our original plan had been to sail from Gibraltar to Madeira, spend a few days in Madeira, then continue on to Las Palmas. The crossing to Madeira is about 5 days, then another 2 to Gran Canaria. It had become clear, however, that the weather had other ideas. The forecast…
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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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September 2024 – Part II
Too depressing to be included in Part I After motor sailing in light breezes most of the way from San Vito lo Capo we dropped anchor in a large bay at Campulongu on the southeast corner of Sardinia. We’d had some weather moments along the way, including a couple of almost-waterspouts, and though the night…
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September 2024 – Part I
Weather Jail in San Vito lo Capo, Sicily We spent two weeks waiting for a window to sail to Sardinia, then on to Mallorca. There are much worse places to be in weather jail, but even the nicest cages are still cages. Er, boats. We started out back in Palermo, where we “had to” sight…
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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…
