Mission Impossible?

We left Sardinia on a mission. We had three and a half weeks and around 700 nautical miles(!) to cover before we were due to collect our next guests in Barcelona. This trek would see us traversing the coastline of the Italian and French Rivieras and crossing the wild Gulf of Leon. We chose to […]

The Strait of Bonifacio

We had one week to go before we were due to collect our next crew in Sardinia. The main obstacle in our way was the Strait of Bonifacio, a narrow body of water (11 km / 6.8 miles wide) that divides the French island of Corsica and the Italian island of Sardinia and separates the […]

The Corsica Challenge

Corsica is a beautiful island. I think it is now Conor’s favorite place to anchor with its long sandy beaches and bays that allow for excellent holding. Of course, these sandy beaches also make for the clearest water you can imagine and great swimming. Green and dramatic mountains add to the landscape, and lovely quaint […]

Corsica and Great Friends

Upon leaving Pisa, we pointed our sails towards the large French island of Corsica. Our hope was to meet up with a couple of Conor’s Irish college buddies and their wives as they were already in Corsica. Ed and Heike were on their own boat, and Trevor and Sally Ann were vacationing on Corsica but […]