THREE COUNTRIES IN ONE WEEK!

Well today is 25th April and we are in Olba on Sardinia and it is a lovely place we have been away from Mahon for 2 weeks we left 2 weeks today and arrived north of the island on Friday after a good sail across and through Passagio de Fornelli beautiful welcome to the island after the nights sail.

     then the following week-end we ventured to Corsica a french island and to Boniffacio a special habour and out of season very quiet and free! We were storm bound for the week-end and then on Monday made our way back to the Isle of Maggdelena north Sardina and now we are on our way down the coast.

       It has been awhile since thet last blog as internet connections are few and far between as we have not been in a Marina and have to real lie on Bars and cafe's . Anyway found one today and we are entertaining  Rikardo this eve on board an friend of Ray's who he has done Yacht Master exams for his students. Rikardo run 's a sailing school here in Olbia.

   Ray will write a more creative blog with pictures soon.

      We are both well and enjoying ourselves!

MENORCAN GOV DECLARE JOSEPHNE A NATURE RESERVE !!

The prop before

 On Tuesday 2nd April we had the boat lifted out for her annual anti foul in preparation for the next stage of our journey.

We were amazed at the amount of growth beneath the waterline. We had swam and dived around the boat late last year and all was fine.  However a few months standing still over the winter in the relatively warm waters of Mahon resulted in the growth that you can see in the photographs.

under water forest

The boat is now looking much better and has been re painted and is ready to go.

All appears to be working well and we will re launch  on Monday 8th and go out and have a sea trial.

Whilst the boat has been ashore we have been staying and having an excellent time at the White Sands beach club which is situated in a beautiful bay at Arenal d,en Castell in  the North of the Island.

CLEAN PROP &
NEW ANODE

Coming out early and spending a month here has been proved to be a good idea. We have managed to do a lot of preparation work on the boat at a sensible pace and without any pressure of deadlines etc.. In addition  it seems that we have missed some pretty bad weather at home. Here the weather has been good and we have been wearing shorts and T shirts most of the time.

Our next blog should hopefully be from Sardinia, following a 36 to 48 hour passage from Minorca. We hope to arrive n the North of the island and we are looking forward to spending some time in Bonifacio, Corsica and the La Madelaina archipelligo.

Looking forward to hearing from you all,

RAY & MANDY