Author: Max

Wow! What a year the last week has been. We’ve been backwards and forwards and everywhere in-between. Do we go or do we stay? As all of the destinations between here and NZ closed down due to COVID-19, the feeling of control slipped further away. This is unprecedented times for everybody. The choices that were […]

We hired a car today and went on a short road trip inland to Nine Mile, the birth and resting place (Mount Zion) of Bob Marley. Jamaica and it’s people are charming. We heard a lot of negative things about Jamaica before we came here, mainly from people who haven’t been. ‘It’s dangerous.’ ‘People are […]

In our previous lives we both worked fulltime. That was before and after we had the kids. We both did most things around the house. There was no conscious divide between the pink and blue jobs. Boat life with kids changed that. Our terrible trio are so close in age that they are like a […]

After three days on the boat and two nights of uncomfortable motoring 200M into the wind from Cayman Islands to Montego Bay, Jamaica we were ready for some serious relaxing, preferably on land. Things started to go skewed when B said, ‘shit the paddle board has gone!’ Except for really long passages, and unless the […]

Croatia has been a real adventure. We saw a lot of amazing things and got visits from family and friends which made it extra special. How do we compare it to other places we’ve seen? Bianca and I have been trying to sum it up. Perhaps we got spoilt in Greece with the ease and […]

Early Birds We got up early yesterday to get the 6:45 ferry into Dubrovnik from the island of Kolocep where we are anchored. Being a Unesco heritage city steeped in history and of course the set of GOT’s King’s Landing – we weren’t going to miss this opportunity. City Wall Walking the city wall is […]

Pancakes Pancakes is a tradition with us on birthdays. Today was presents then pancakes. Beau was literally jumping up and down with excitement. We love to indulge it. The boat is covered with birthday decorations and balloons. Another tradition onboard, regardless of age. Beau 7 In the last year Beau has learnt so much. His […]

Beau’s excited Today is officially known as the day before Beau turns seven. He is super-duper excited about it. Has he told us? About a million times. Opa en Oma We are also preparing for Opa and Oma to come. Boat things needed to be cleaned up, moved around. I even unwrapped the new pressure […]

Getting Here We had a lovely sail down to our pick up, Pula today. There was just a gentle breeze from astern and we had the sails up straight away. Our boat is not built for speed and we were overtaken by, well, everyone sailing the same course. Many of the boats had kevlar sails […]

Conversation with Zoe today She told me, “I’ll never forget you.” “Forget me?”, I asked concerned. “Yes, if you go away on a long holiday”, she replied. “Oh”, I said somewhat relieved. “Or once you’re dead.” Terrific! Out of the mouths of babes… Reaching Rovinj So, after filling up with diesel at the dockside we […]

Piran looked a pretty place. We stuck our nose into the harbour and it looked pretty busy. After several days of slowing down, busy wasn’t really high on the agenda. So we changed plans and decided that crossing over to Croatia was the thing to do. Everyone’s told us that the Croatians are sticklers for […]

So we left MdR on Sunday 6 May after spending our second winter there. Shaking off six plus months in a marina is a surreal experience. Suddenly after ages of being in one place the boat is moving. The boat the was once the shape of a house, is once again a house in the […]

Mahon, allegedly the birthplace of Mayonnaise. We got here last night just before sundown. We originally planned to go to a Cala on the south coast of Menorca, but when we got there the anchorage was so poor due to the prevailing wind that we carried on an extra 20M to Mahon. The anchorage here […]