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The original plan for our stop in Gibraltar was to pick up some replacement provisions, hit the local chandlerys for needed safety gear and spare parts (Gib Yachts being a go-to place), refuel, and go!  As I mentioned in the previous post, weather had other thoughts on this plan.  We were refreshing our Predict Wind […]

Getting settled and Climbing “The Rock” The fun, but tricky thing about having “crew on board” is you make basic plans for a sailing trip: you know who, when, where.  You make this plan sometimes months in advance. Then you execute said plan and well, mother nature has other plans she didn’t discuss with you. 

Before we leave Valencia behind in our blog for good, I would be remiss if I didn’t cover some of the amazing sights and events we took in while we were there.  After a couple of weeks of being in Spain, we were so focused (stressed) and bogged down fixing up the boat (we had

Return to Valencia After pulling away from the dock at Puerto Gandia we ran our autopilot configurations, then we were off for our 6 our journey north back to Valencia.  It was a nice sail with 8-15 kts of wind pushing us the whole way. We had the main and jib up, then swapped to

Back at “home” in Valencia, it was time to get serious about addressing any remaining concerns and needed preparations prior to the big Atlantic Crossing. Our primary goals for the haul out to was to get a good look at the bottom of the boat, address minor thru hull leaks, a potential fiberglass repair on

Knowing we had a little over a week left until it was time to head back to mainland Spain to prepare for our upcoming Atlantic Crossing, we decided to head around to western and northern sides of Ibiza. Based on incoming weather and wind patterns coupled with the research on beautiful and fun places to

After spending a full day and two nights recovering from our crazy trip crossing the Balearic Sea to Ibiza and letting the winds die down a bit, it was time to start moving and explore!  We decided based on the westerly winds being forecast for the coming days to move to the eastern side of

Having successfully completed a relatively comfortable weekend on the hook making sure everything we would need to live comfortably worked, we were ready to stretch our legs even further.  Coincidently, a lot of the big projects we were working on required outside services and vendors and we were rolling into August.  In August, Spain, and

Mid-July 2022, after 3 long weeks stuck on the dock, the throttles came back with the friction properly adjusted (getting it from UPS become a fun scavenger hunt that had Kevin biking all over the city of Valencia in the dead of summer to find the shipped box) and a lot of work fixing broken