Off again!

1 June 2011

We have managed to tear ourselves away from Gozo and Malta at long last. It has been such a wonderful stay that we think we will call in on our return from the eastern Mediterranean.

For the last fortnight we have been spending the days and nights anchored in the Blue Lagoon on Camino, a small island one mile from Gozo. It is a magnet for the tourists and the tripper boats start arriving and disgorging people from about 9 am, and then there is frenetic activity of power boats whizzing in and out, huge pleasure craft and even bigger tour boats. By 5pm it is all over and we have had the place to ourselves apart from the occasional yacht anchoring. We have stayed longer than expected due to fridge failure which has required a new fridge and evaporator. No way we were going anywhere without a fridge. The marina were very good to us and let us come along side the pontoon when we needed to go to town or have the fridge man come.

More of this later when we are back on the internet.

So today we have set out towards Croatia and the first stop is on the anchor at Porto Palo, south east corner of Sicily (36°40.033'N/15°06.841,E). Started motoring but not long before the sails came out and off we went. Nice to find we had put all the ropes back properly! Excellent day apart from the autopilot not behaving, but he is going into intensive care tonight to be fit for tomorrow's sail to Syracuse.

These blogs are being posted by our Kate as we are now on the radio link.