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 […]

Let Season 3 Begin!

And we’re off! We left Licata yesterday with a weather window to head west around Sicily. If we didn’t leave now, we wouldn’t have time to go west where we haven’t gone before. If you read my recent post, “Plans for Summer 2024,” you know where we’re headed this season. It’s always bittersweet to leave […]

Plans for Summer 2024?

It’s already mid-April, and people are asking questions… Are we going to be sailing soon? Yes! We are currently finishing up small maintenance tasks on Sabática as well as waiting for a good patch of weather, but we hope to set sail for our new season within a couple of weeks. Woohoo! Where do we […]