Sicily - Malta - Tunisia

Hello to You All Again

Tuesday 16^th April - 0700 - It’s a beautiful morning.  The sun has risen.  Not a breath of wind.  Not so much as a ripple on the water.  We untie our lines from our pontoon and motor on slowly out of the marina.  Our time has come to leave Marina di Ragusa, our winter home for the last five months.  Only a handful of yachts have departed for the new cruising season so far, and most of those to other ports to be lifted out to have maintenance done before starting the new sailing season.  We too are heading out early for this very reason.  A lift out in Tunisia.  Ragusa has all the facilities to do a lift out, but the cost is way over the top plus one cannot work on your own boat, and you cannot stay on your boat while it is on the hard so there is the extra expensive of staying in a hotel.  Our first stop will be Malta.  On board with us we have another New Zealand couple Helen and Kerry, who are hitch hiking to Malta to do some business.

The Winter of 2012 - 2013 Marina di Ragusa, Sicily

Hello Again Everyone

First of all a very big thank you to all of you who have been keeping in contact with us over the last six months.  Yes we are still out here.  I know a number of you have been wondering why we have not updated our newsletter, and the blog, as the sailing season is now under way here in the Mediterranean.  The reason is I am still without a computer after all the problems I had at the end of last year, and I won’t be replacing it till the end of this year when I will be going to Abu Dhabi.  So I am using Alec’s old one which has also caused us some major headaches at times.

Well Spring has arrived with blustery winds which just don’t seem to stop blowing, mostly from the wrong direction too! It is also still quite cool.  Bring on those lazy hazy days of summer.