by Mary Greensmith | Jun 1, 2020 | Equipment, Greece, Sailing
We are back on anchor and free to sail. (In the image above is the bay we are now sitting in). Well that is the theory anyway! In reality we need to do another shop and we need to pick up a parcel that hasn’t arrived yet So in the meantime we can test all of our...
by Mary Greensmith | Oct 4, 2019 | Equipment, Facts and Figures, Sailing
Paul is over the moon with his new solar regulator, so much so, he has written all about it for you. We use our phone and the Ipad for a lot of the tracking and planning and weather watching because we can do it anywhere in the boat, and we don’t have an inside...
by Mary Greensmith | Sep 13, 2019 | Equipment, Living
We were very excited to see our family coming to stay and for an extra bonus we had arranged a parcel to arrive at the same time. So I thought I would run through the traumas of shopping whilst living on a boat. Because we don’t have an address a lot of the time, as...
by Mary Greensmith | Aug 10, 2019 | Equipment, Greece, Sailing
We have spent the last few weeks in the most wonderful summer location yet. The Gulf of Volos is in North East Greece on the mainland. We haven’t had a lot of wind, in fact hardly any wind at all, we have found lots of beautiful anchorages with hardly any people and...
by Mary Greensmith | Jul 26, 2019 | Equipment, Living
I knew it was to good to be true! Paul had everything organised for Thursday. Parts, diver, no wind (well I think that was more luck than organisation from Paul but everything seemed to slot into place. We motored (due to no wind) up to Volos. By the time we got...
by Mary Greensmith | Jul 26, 2019 | Equipment, Greece, Living
We have been battling against the winds for months, now is the time we decide to change our tactic and go where the wind says we go. Instead of going to explore Lesvos and Limnos as we had planned to do, we head west with the wind behind us. It is a beautiful sailing...