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Crossing the Adriatic

Wednesday 24th July dawned bright and sunny with a good forecast of moderate North Westerly winds arising late morning and lasting overnight. We were up early preparing for the 120 mile passage from Bari in Italy to Bar in Montenegro, just dropping an ‘i’ in our destination. We left Italy soon after 9am. In spiteContinue reading “Crossing the Adriatic”

Naples

It was an early start for us on Monday 22nd July as we had to get a taxi to take us to the bus stop by the railway station to catch our bus to Napoli, due to leave at 9am. Fortunately we had bought our tickets the day before, a frustrating exercise that had takenContinue reading “Naples”

Bari

It might not have been one of our better decisions to leave Vieste on Wednesday 17th July to sail to another coastal town further south, but set off we did. The moderate northerly wind was no problem but the sea was still boiling from the strong winds of the previous few days and even gettingContinue reading “Bari”

East coast of Italy

Lastovo is one of the western most islands of Croatia and makes an attractive setting off point for Italy as the distance to cross to the tip of the peninsular jutting out from the east coast of Italy is only 60 miles, a manageable day sail. Fun and games as usual to clear customs outContinue reading “East coast of Italy”

Korcula & Lastovo

We had been planning to go to Vis but the wind dictated our direction and we ended up in Vela Luka on the eastern end of Korcula. We were pleased to note that the dusty work in progress on road construction that we encountered last year, was now complete and we enjoyed our visit hereContinue reading “Korcula & Lastovo”

Getting to Vrboska on Hvar

Tuesday 2nd July, we left Split well after midday hoping for the afternoon sea breeze to blow us to the island of Brac. The westerly wind finally obliged at 2pm and we went from no wind to 20knots in just a few minutes in true Croatian style. A fast sail took us past Milna onContinue reading “Getting to Vrboska on Hvar”

San Giorgio to Split

Thursday 20th June, our first stop to clear immigration into Croatia was at Novigrad where we admired the old church and sampled some Croatian beer. On our way in we suffered complete instrument failure which was worrying. Nigel even had to resort to reading the manual to identify that the main fuse had decidedContinue reading “San Giorgio to Split”

San Giorgio

Deja Vu’s re-rig by Sunbeam Yachts went well, according to plan and on schedule. New stays, spreaders, fittings, wind instrument and refurbished genoa furling gear had all been installed and set up, under the excellent expert supervision of Sunbeam’s director Manfred Shoechl and we were ready to leave San Giorgio and the sweltering 30 degreesContinue reading “San Giorgio”

Arrival in Italy

We made it into Italian waters on Saturday June 1st after a good sail from Umag. Crossing the Gulf of Trieste was quite hazardous with lots of floating logs and tree parts around, presumably washed down the Italian rivers. It gets quite shallow in the northern most part of the Gulf and acts as anContinue reading “Arrival in Italy”

Rovinj, Porec and Umag

This next blog entry is being written from the main cabin of Deja Vu, 1030am on Friday 31st May. The torrential rain started yesterday, continued through the night and still pours down. We have literally battoned down the hatches, grateful for being in Umag Marina with power to run our fan heater (it is 10Continue reading “Rovinj, Porec and Umag”