Friday, December 4, 2009

Day 100: Nov 29, 2009 - Valencia to Pisa, Italy

Sailed 900 miles, averaging 30 miles a day. Spending a week in Northern Italy

Day 70: Nov 9, 2009 - Gibraltor to Valencia

Sailed 300 miles, averaging 30 miles a day

Day 60: Oct 30, 2009 - 10 day sail down the coast to Gibraltor

Sailed about 300 miles from Lisbon to Gibraltor, making 30 miles a day on average.

Day 53: Oct 23, 2009 - Arrive in Lisbon

Sailed for 10 days to Lisbon. Now we'll spend a week touring Portugal while some minor repairs and restocking is made to the boat.

Tuesday, October 13, 2009

Day 43: Oct 13 - log of sail in Azores

Sailed the Azores for 6 days and saw the delivery crew off for Portugal yesterday. It should take them 10 days to sail to Lisbon.

Weather has been beautiful - lows of 67 degrees and highs of 74 degrees and sunny with nice breezes of 7 to 14 knots.

Thursday, October 1, 2009

Day 36: Oct 6th - landfall sighting

11:52 hours and delivery team just reported sighting Corvo. http://www.destinazores.com/en/index.php?region_id=10

We will be flying there tomorrow to sail with the delivery team for 3 days and explore the Azore Archipelago.

Day 31: Oct 1st - 11 days into Atlantic crossing

Steady sailing, 5 to 10 foot swells, and cold at night with lows dipping into the low 30s.