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”
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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”
Our visitors in Pula
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Arriving in Istria
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Setting off in May
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April
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The plan for April & May 2013
April 2013 and planning is underway for this year’s sailing trip. We are looking forward to escaping the extreme cold that has ravaged the UK through March and still shows no sign of lettng up. Croatia may not be much better, but it can’t be any worse! We fly out on April 11th for aContinue reading “The plan for April & May 2013”
Zut, birthday and heading for home
We left Iz on Tuesday 25th September in brilliant sunshine with little wind and motored south towards the island of Zut, calling in on the port of Sali on Dugi Otok, just to take a look. Strong South Easterlies were forecast and Sali, open to the south, would not have been an ideal choice toContinue reading “Zut, birthday and heading for home”
Silba, Bribinj & Iz
It was an unusually cold wind, but a sunny day, Friday 21st September, when we arrived at the Bay of St Ante on Silba. We were all alone in a bay littered with mooring buoys, it was quite eerie, and there was only a reef separating us from the open sea. We went ashore inContinue reading “Silba, Bribinj & Iz”
Deja Vu 