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April 05, 2011: Just in case you think I have stopped writing my blog, for those of you who don’t know already, I have started a new blog for this year entitled ‘Endeavours Adventures 2011’  which I started on my return to Turkey.  Nothing much to write about though apart from the liveaboard life and community at Marmaris Yat Marina but this year we are daring to go to N. Cyprus, Sy... » read more

Jambo sails the UK

Setting off from The Hamble Jambo goes clockwise around the UK over the next 3 months

May 29, 2012: No not Chris but but this is the giants causeway in northern islandPopped into have a look and now off to IslaySent from my iPhone » read more

Ein Jahr unterwegs mit der Volare

Gemütlich durch das Mittelmeer (ca. vier Monate im Sommer und Herbst 2011), Ende November geht es über den Atlantik in die Karibik (dort bleiben wir weitere vier Monate) und dan...

May 28, 2012: Am Samstag fahren wir bis zum Morgen weiterhin mit der Maschine und kommen nur recht langsam weiter. Dann dreht aber der Wind doch allmählich zurück nach Nord, und wir können die Maschine abschalten und hart am Wind (mit 10 – 15 kn) wieder segeln. Der Himmel ist weiterhin bedeckt, und es ist regnerisch, das Meer halbwegs ruhig mit 1 – 2 m Schwell aus Nordwesten. Es ha... » read more

A True, Blue, Outrageous Adventure

A Circumnavigation from Cape Town, through the Panama Canal and into the S & N Pacific, stopping in PNG and returning via Oz, Reunion & Mauritius... with an emphasis on surfing,...

January 16, 2011: Puddles of light define the bays, looking more like fire and smoke than the weekend houses and favourite beaches of memory. The night sky is a heavy blanket of stars reaching from horizon to land, the stars that have been upside down for so long now ordered and correct in their places. I can see the blinking lighthouses off Pringle Bay and Cape Point which remind me of all the others that have ... » read more

Adventures on Erimar

May 13, 2012: The adventure has come to an end.Good times, sad times and happy times.There is a time and place for all we do and our adventures will return in another time, another place.We have met some lovely people along the way,learnt alot about ourselves and found the real us and the real others.Erimar did us proud and never missed a beat and she dealt with all that came her way.We have said goodbye to ... » read more

Endeavour's Adventures 2011

This year we are in Turkey and will be visiting Eastern Turkey, Cyprus, Syria, Lebanon, Israel and maybe Egypt before returning via Cyprus back to Marmaris in Turkey.

November 15, 2011: The Turkish people are celebrating ‘Bayrum’ and have a public holiday from 5th November to 9th November.  The boat yard has been at a standstill till Thursday when they returned to work.  On Monday, Mr. Bilgin the owner of the marina put on a free lunch ‘celebration of the sacraficial feast’ in the workers canteen for everybody.  On Thursday morning at 9.0... » read more

Ken and Katie's voyages aboard Sand Dollar

Via Micronesia, Phillipines, Borneo, Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand

May 07, 2012: Dear Friends and Family,After enjoying touring the west coast of Phuket Island, we returned to beautiful Chalong Bay in the southeast corner of the island and made it our base of operations. From there we were able to get several items taken care of on Sand Dollar, one of which was having a new awning/rain-catcher made. The girls that made it work in a loft above Rick’s Surf Shop and did ... » read more

Sailing the South Pacific and Australia

Cruising from New Zealand to Tonga, Fiji, Vanuatu and New Caledonia then to Australia.

April 23, 2012: I have started a new blog called Ajustralis to Thailand,for the next adventure, so if you haven’t had notification of my first entry, you may need to add your email address again. » read more

Auspray Adventures

Starting at Port Douglas we aim to travel south, exploring the various island clusters between here and the Whitsundays. Towards the end of Summer we plan to backtrack and trav...

November 22, 2010: We spent a week at Low Isles, had some beautiful weather and some not so beautiful weather.  We spent the good days having a dive, snorkeling, people watching the day trippers on the several tour boats that came out every day or just walking around the island looking for interesting things.  During the week we were there we caught up with some friends that we had met at other destinat... » read more

ChrisGFandango's trip to the Med

Porthmadog/Fishguard/Milford/Padstow/ Penzance/Falmouth/Plymouth/Chichester/ Brighton/Le Havre/French Canals/ Port St Louis/Golfe Du Lion/Spain/portugal/French Italian Rivier...

April 21, 2012: Welcome to our 2012 Tripsailor blog, by now you will have had an opportunity to read our late update blog for our 2011 sailing season. The blog is a single entry over-view of our short sailing programme; hence it is presented as a single entry.However, we hope that you will find it interesting. For those friends who are members of PSC you will have received an extended version with photographs ... » read more