27th April 2012 – 1 year at Sea

We have reached our one year anniversary of setting off on our big adventure. Some days you can hardly remember what life was like back in the UK and others it seems like yesterday but the boat does definitely feel like home now.

We have sailed almost 4000 miles and visited 6 countries (UK, France, Spain, Portugal, Gibraltar and Morocco).  In mainland Spain we have visited about 25 different ports plus all the places we have visited in the 3 months spent in the Balearics. This is pretty good going since we spent over 4 months in Gibraltar during the winter.

One day can vary so much from the next but most of the time we are enjoying every minute and excited to see what a new location brings.

The year ahead will hopefully be a big one with lots of new place, new people and great experiences.

The (loose) plan for this year is to continue eastward to Corsica and Sardinia, to meet some visitors in June/early July and to explore the area around the straights of Bonifacio.

Then we will head back to Gibraltar and on out into the Atlantic to Madeira, assuming we haven’t scared ourselves silly by then and all is good with Magnum we will turn south to the Canary islands and then on to Cape Verde with a view to crossing the Atlantic to the Caribbean in late Dec making landfall in Antigua.

First we need to get our instruments fixed and wait for a decent weather forecast as the 200 mile stretch of water between Menorca and Corsica has a bit of an evil reputation with the Tramontana wind howling down from the NW at up to F11 !!

Still enjoying ourselves