I'm delighted to say that my new boat - a very 'non-standard', customized, Najad 380 - is gradually nearing completion of her fitting out on the Hamble, having arrived Tuesday week ago from Henån in Sweden. The sun has been shining almost non-stop ever since - matching my pleasure at being 'back home' on the water, where I'm busy with lots of details and looking forward to lots of g
My website has now been updated to include our cruising during 2007 and 2008 - there are rather a lot of photos, so apologies if it loads rather slowly.
A web site featuring the voyages of Wandering Star, a Southerly, between the UK and Denmark. in 2007,8 and 2010.
Well, at the end of last season I bought and fitted a NASA AIS "radar". I gave it its own antenna on the pushpit. The first time out it got used in earnest.
I've now added Sicily to the many other European cruise areas compared on my web site. If you know any areas intimately, please check the site out for accuracy.
Any comments on depth of coverage, or facts and opinions on the site, are very welcome.
Franks Singleton's Weather and Sailing Pages have much weather information, including many links to forecasts on the Internet. There are also logs from 2000 onwards. These cover from the UK across Biscay and into the Mediterranean, as far as the Adriatic and (just) the Ionians.
Our blog www.blog.mailasail.com/mina2 covers our cruises from 2009 from Portugal, via West Africa, Cape Verde, and the west coast of South America to Antarctica (2012). We are now heading north again.
Our website at www.mina2.com gives general information and contains the journals of our earlier cruises from 2004 in Arctic Norway and round the Baltic and Mediterranean seas.