Sailing the Trails of Herodotus and Odysseus
Posted in Sailing, Sailing Croatia, Sailing Greece, Sailing Montenegro on Jul 3rd, 2011
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Some five weeks ago I departed from Murter, Croatia, to sail south to the inland sea of Levkada in Greece…
My sailing yacht Helena, a Beneteau Cyclades 39, is very easy to handle and performs well, including the Genaker, one of my trip gadgetsthe ultimate toy. Top speed we reached was [...]
Posted in Sailing Croatia on Sep 2nd, 2009
Todays Daily Picture was taken when sailing from the tranquille Molat to Iz Veli in the fourth week of my trip in Croatia.
The sailing was wonderfull. We were heading south and had between 15 – 20 knots wind from the south. We were sailing between islands and could make nice tacks. Because we had no [...]
Posted in An Adriatic 2009 on Aug 16th, 2009
First week in back in the Netherlands was not so hard as I would have expected.
Nothing has really changed. I have coffees and a sandwich at Café Thijssen (my Amsterdam office) instead of a lunch with fresh fish, I am reading the latest financial news in the FD instead of information about harbours and bays [...]
Posted in An Adriatic 2009 on Jul 23rd, 2009
Scoop of the day is the visit of three generations of dolphins to our boat.
It was very close to the island Hvar on the line of the village Jagodni Bd and the islands Hridi Lukavei and they were with about 10-15 of them. I clearly recognized the grandparents and the youngers. The first because of [...]
Posted in An Adriatic 2009 on Jul 23rd, 2009
Just an easy sailing picture today, taken between Korcula and Sipan, one of the Elephati Islands.
Posted in An Adriatic 2009 on Jul 21st, 2009
Clouds can be very happy too!
Picture was taken between Split and Hvar just before going between the islands Brac and Solta.
Before this crossing there was almost no wind to sail. After the crossing it rose to 15 – 20 knots. So the only scientific explanation for this kind of weather phenomenon is off course: happy [...]
Posted in An Adriatic 2009 on Jul 18th, 2009
After another week of sailing arrived in the ACI Marina in Dubrovnik yesterday.
This marina is one of the most luxorious I have seen until now in Croatia. In any case the first with a swimming pool and a very cool old mansion integrated in the marina.
Next pictures uploaded and ready to be published, herewith the [...]
Posted in An Adriatic 2009 on Jul 11th, 2009
Yesterday arrived in Split after a week of happy sailing from Murter to Split.
Google Earth Mania
Below you will find the route we took.
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Off course I had to go to the Kornati Archipel again. This time no nice little Kornatian village but took a mooring [...]
Posted in An Adriatic 2009 on Jul 3rd, 2009
See above the first sneak preview of the GPS data converted to Google Earth. Once I finalized the above, I realized so much more to be done.
I would like to add the waypoints for the different cities we have sailed, further add the anchorings, the places we have spotted dolphins and the turtle. I have [...]
Posted in An Adriatic 2009 on Jul 1st, 2009
Back in Murter again for some days after a long weekend sailing the neighborhood with 4 friends.
Provides me therefore with some time to do some office work again. The usual analysing of the GPS data and the geocoding of my pictures. Further I will try to make some plans for next week. Crew yet to [...]
