Driving down to do a bit of work on Jacana. Arrived about 1700 to find that the tent cover had survived the winter Mistral although slightly ripped in places and inside she was totally dry. Over the next few days…

End of June…   The lockdown is now easing we we are keen to get sailing again, so we’ve booked the car on a ferry to Bilbao to then drive east to Port Napoleon to resume sailing.

With guests turning up at our home in Weymouth on Saturday and with travel and quarantine restrictions gradually being lifted, we decided to make a run to Jacana in Port Napoleon. Rather than flying to Marseille, we decided on a…

At least the wind has dropped a bit, no longer gusting 25 knots, particularly important as we are being lifted in at 1130. In true Port Napoleon efficiency, the cradle lifter turned up at 1045, so a bit of panic…

We spent the week getting ready to sail, doing things like fitting a new accumulator, several times in fact, with more and more ptfe tape and ptfe liquid until it stopped dripping. Trying unsuccessfully to get AIS targets displayed on…

We weren’t quite sure where we would end up today, either the islands off Marseille, or Port Miou or beyond. In the end despite motor sailing all day, we reached for La Ciotat, a lovely albeit slightly industrial town that…

The weather forecast suggested favourable lightish winds, picking up a bit later in the week, so we made the decision to try for Calvi on Corsica, knowing that we could abandon the passage and stop at the Ile de Porquerolles…

A free day in Calvi to catch up with sleep and to explore a bit. So took the small coastal train to Rossa for lunch and a laze, followed by people watching from the boat in the evening.    …

Decided to spend our first night at anchor so motored the 25miles east from Calvi to a reasonably calm bay offering shelter, along with about 20 other boats. On lowering the anchor we noticed an acrid electrical burning smell, and…

Despite the name, Macinaggio, this is still definitely Corsica, France. A fairly quiet day, motor sailing round the top of Corsica, passing Canari an old asbestos mine, to the small village of Macinaggio, boasting a large marina, a small supermarket,…