Adventures of Sailing Yacht Mist
During 2021 we have sailed from 62 degrees 51,9 minutes North (Ona, Norway) to 27 degrees 46,8 minutes North (Puerto Rico, Gran Canaria Spain). From 12 degrees 48,7 minutes East (Skanör, Sweden) to 17 degrees 46 minutes West ( Santa Cruz de la Palma, Spain). We have logged 4830,1 nautical miles and have visited 8 …
Our children and grand children was planning to go to Puerto Rico de Gran Canaria for Christmas. To visit us and to celebrate Christmas together. We left Marina San Miguel at dawn, 2 reefs in the main and the heavy weather jib. Close hauled on port tack and we were doing good progress towards Puerto …
We left Las Galletas after just one night, motoring to the nearby very sheltered Marina San Miguel. San Miquel is just a golf resort and a marina but the nearby village San Blas is in walking distance, just a few kilometres away. We went for walks and a hike to Las Galletas, nice views and …
La Gomera was really nice but it was time to get closer to Gran Canaria where we have booked a berth in Puerto Rico marina for Christmas. We left Marina San Sebastian at nine fifteen in the morning. Nice sailing at first but the wind dropped and we had to motor. A pod of pilot …
After 4 days of cleaning the boat from ash we felt we had enough of La Palma and it was time to move on. We left Santa Cruz de La Palma late in the afternoon as we wanted to get to Gomera at dawn. Very little wind so we motored slowly towards Marina La Gomera …
After 11 days in Quinta do Lordo it was time to move on. It was very difficult to get a berth or mooring anywhere in the Canaries but Marina Santa Cruz de La Palma welcomed us so together with sy Capella we left Quinta do Lordo in the morning November 18th. Really good sailing to …
From Quinta do Lordo we took the bus to Machico to get some provisions. We went for a hike to Punta de Sao Lorenzo, not far from the marina. Together with the Capella crew we hired a car and went for a trip around the island. We visited Funchal and Porto Moniz and went to …
We left Porto Santo just before noon, without being ashore. We did get one night of descent sleep though. Our friends on sy Capella arrived soon after and we went out for dinner together. The distance to Quinta do Lorde was only 30 nautical miles and after 6 hours sailing wing on wing we arrived …
After 5 day in Porto we set off for Porto Santo, to get further south and to meet our friends on sy Capella and sy Star. The weather forecast promised a beam reach and around 20 knots of wind. We left Porto at first light but instead of a beam reach we where close hauled …
After a couple of days in A Coruna it was time to continue south. We left at dawn after a stop at the fuel dock. Our plan was to go to Camarinas but when we got there we decided to continue south to Porto, motoring all night. We arrived at Porto after 31 hours at …