Yesterday we had one of those “taking care of the boat days” and we “hard-cored” it for almost 12 hours- cleaning, maintaining the engines, sorted out the dingy engine, checking the rig, did some mast

We are now all alone again and moored in the big port of Palermo where we are preparing the boat for our next leg that will take us one step closer to Gibraltar. Dan- our “paying crew passenger&

We arrived late this afternoon and are now anchored just outside an island called Favignana on the western tip of Sicily. The trip was really slow and we used our engines A LOT but we had a couple of

This morning we went back to Valetta to pick up our new crew member Dan that is going to sail with us for a week.  Dan seems to be super easy going and I am sure that we will have a great week togethe

We were watching a movie when the wind suddenly went from 10 knots to 50 in just  a minute. Our dingy just flew up in the air and flipped upside down so that the engine was in the water. It was all wh

Yesterday morning we sailed a couple of miles west along the Maltese costline towards a small island called Comino. Along the way we tried our new anchor and stopped for the night outside a place call

We sailed for 6 days and sailed more than 600 nm to get from Crete to Malta- if you were a bird you would only have to fly 400 nm in a straight line to get here. That we had really low winds didn’t co

After have spending more than two months in this country of tsatsiki, lamb and ouzo we are now ready to leave and set sail for Malta. We will be leaving within a couple of hours and we are really look

Almost a week has past sense our last report and we are still on the Greek island Crete . The wind is still very weak and is blowing from the west so our next leg towards Malta or Tunisia is postponed

Vi är fortfarande kvar på Kreta och väntar på att vinden ska blåsa åt rätt håll så att den kan ta oss till Malta alt. Tunisien. Vi ligger i en marina som nästan är gratis. Det kostar 5 euro/dag (jämfö

My dear sister Felicia arrived to Santorini two days ago and she is now a member of the crew for the following week. She arrived in the middle of the night so we decided it was best if I met her at th

The ride down to Santorini from Naxos took us about 7 hours. We had perfect winds and the sail was as good as it gets- we had absolute down wind that alowed us to have our sails ”butterflied” almost a

We are now making us ready to leave the marina here in Naxos. We have pretty strong winds from north so it should not take more than 7-8 hours  to sail the 50 miles down south to the island of Santori

We left the marina in Loutra around 2200, right after the kids went to sleep and started our 50 miles journey to the Island Paros. The weather forecast told us that we would have 20 knots of wind all

It has been a while sense our last report, but as they say- better late than never! Also- I hate to write about that happened more than 2 days ago so I will let the pictures tell the story! Me, Anna a

Daniel is sweet, Before our late arrival on Corfu we originally thought that we would stay in an hotel for a day.  Easier transition for Vilda and us, we could also get a good sleep before taking a ta