After decades of sailing around Greek waters, Christopher’s retirement dream was to sail through the Bosphorus and round the Black Sea to Georgia. Planning quickly showed Russian and Russian-occupied Georgian waters were no-go zones but at that time, 2012, the Ukraine and especially the Crimea proved to be excellent sailing. The Black Sea is notorious for storms, but these are reasonably predictable and thus avoidable (though during the long sail from Yalta to N Turkey we endured 85 knots of wind, thankfully only for 10 minutes). Setbacks included laborious times with officials, boardings by the Coastguard, jellyfish and outdated electronic charts. Highlights were mooring at the bottom of the Potemkin steps in beautiful Odesa, sleepy towns on the Crimea coast, the splendour of the then co-Russian naval estuary of Sevastopol, abandoned base for nuclear submarines in Balaclava estuary, palaces and downbeat hotels in Yalta - and dolphins. Let’s hope we can get there again.
Date: Wednesday 8 February 2023
Time: 19:00
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Swallow’s Nest near Yalta