Captain Ian
Adriatic Sea to the Aegean Sea via the bottom of the Peloponnese, August 2024
At the end of our last blog, we had just dropped off Jez in Brindisi, Italy. That very same night, we sailed for Corfu and checked into...
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Captain Ian
- Aug 7
- 5 min
Trogir to Brindisi, July 2024
Our last week in Croatia We made it back to Trogir (near Split airport in Croatia) in plenty of time to pick up Jeremy. There was even...
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Captain Ian
- Jul 5
- 9 min
Split to Venice ( and back again) June, 2024
(This is a big one sorry) Venice was never part of our master plan, we'd been there a few time before we purchased NJ, but here we were...
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Captain Ian
- Jun 5
- 6 min
Montenegro to Split, May 2024
On May 19 we arrived back in Montenegro to commence our 2024 sailing season. As we had done in previous years, we had planned to do as...
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Captain Ian
- May 3
- 4 min
Athens to Montenegro, October 2023
We finished our last blog riding out yet another Meltemi, in Olympic Marina, South East of Athens. We had given NJ a good clean (which...
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Captain Ian
- Oct 27, 2023
- 4 min
Corinth Canal to Athens, September 2023
After our stressful and diabolical sail through the Gulf of Corinth, we were more than ready, the next morning to make our way through...
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Captain Ian
- Sep 5, 2023
- 5 min
Ionian Islands, August 2023
We returned to Corfu from Albania to pick up more crew in Sue and John. We would be dropping them off in Athens in a little over 3 weeks,...
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Captain Ian
- Aug 15, 2023
- 3 min
Albania, July 2023
We only saw the far Southern coast of Albania (within the close vicinity of Saranda), which is a very small sample of this large and...
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Captain Ian
- Jul 31, 2023
- 3 min
Corfu, Lakka & Syvota (Greece) July 2023
Corfu Preparation for our 30 hour sail south to Corfu was less than perfect. We would be checking out early in the morning from Bar...
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Captain Ian
- Jul 26, 2023
- 3 min
Wrapping up Montenegro and heading South, June, 2023
We only had a few more weeks in Montenegro before heading South to Greece, and there were still quite a few places we hadn’t seen yet....
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Captain Ian
- Jun 10, 2023
- 3 min
Croatia April 27, 2023
Croatia has the largest yacht charter fleet in the world and is equally popular with full time cruisers. This is in part due to its...
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Captain Ian
- May 15, 2023
- 2 min
Returning to Montenegro for the 2023 sailing season, March 25, 2023
We flew from Melbourne to Tivat, Montenegro with stopovers in Dubai and Belgrade. It was a very long haul, however we were delighted to...
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Captain Ian
- Feb 10, 2023
- 3 min
Sicily to Montenegro, September 30, 2022
After dropping Sarah off at Catania Airport then navigating Sicilian public transport back to Nova Jean in Syracuse, we decided we'd had...
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Captain Ian
- Feb 9, 2023
- 6 min
Naples to Sicily (The South Tyrrhenian Sea), September 16, 2022
A new crew member in Sarah: After many hugs and saying our goodbye's we dropped Tayla and Jez off at Naples Central Station where...
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Captain Ian
- Oct 10, 2022
- 4 min
The Tyrrhenian Sea, September 2, 2022
(Ponza, Ischia, Capri, Positano, Amalfi, Pompei & Herculaneum) PONZA Having Tayla and Jeremy onboard with us for two weeks was the...
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Captain Ian
- Sep 12, 2022
- 4 min
Sardinia July 30, 2022
Sardinia is a short sail off the southern tip of Corsica and it was here in the Northern town of Olbia that we would be meeting up with...
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Captain Ian
- Aug 7, 2022
- 2 min
Corsica July 15, 2022
We had a few weeks spare to explore the island of Corsica before we would be meeting up with friends in Northern Sardinia. We hadn't done...
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Captain Ian
- Jul 23, 2022
- 1 min
Elba July 8, 2022
We sailed overnight from Cinque Terre to the Island of Elba. It was hot and there was very little wind, so we stopped in the middle of...
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Captain Ian
- Jul 23, 2022
- 1 min
Cinque Terre July 5, 2022
Cinque Terre (The Five Lands) is a group of five small villages built on the shores of the mountainous area North of Porto Venere. They...
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Captain Ian
- Jul 23, 2022
- 1 min
Portofino July 3, 2022
Leaving Villafranch was a little sad, but we needed to get moving on to Italy and ultimately Rome to drop our guests off. Portofino is...
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Captain Ian
- Jul 15, 2022
- 2 min
French Riviera June 30, 2022
Our 24 hour crossing to Saint Tropez Started out very uncomfortable with swell coming from multiple directions. We didn't get the sails...
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Captain Ian
- Jul 14, 2022
- 1 min
Barcelona June 21, 2022
After picking up our guests in Palma and giving them a quick tour of our favourite anchorages on the island of Mallorca, it was time to...
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Captain Ian
- Jun 25, 2022
- 1 min
Mallorca, 17 June, 2022
It was difficult to leave portinatx in Ibiza as It felt like heading home after a relaxing holiday. However we needed to move on to the...
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Captain Ian
- Jun 11, 2022
- 1 min
Ibiza June 9, 2022
After 5 days and 400 nautical miles of sailing we finally made it to the island of Ibiza, party/holiday central of the Med. First stop...
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