The Voyage of the Mighty Tenho: heading to Greece (again)

Saturday, March 16, 2013

heading to Greece (again)

It appears the Bermuda triangle has relocated to the Med. After two easy days sailing from Israel to Greece, everything including the weather took a turn for the worse at the same time: we tore the main sail, lost all the hydraulic fluid in the sail furling system, two bilge pumps failed, GPS connection went on the fritz... So we diverted to Turkey for repairs but are now on the road again heading towards Athens.

First time we've had to put in the cabin
doors to keep the water out while sailing

Maggie watched Gilligan's Island through the whole storm

Glad to find someone to fix the

delaminated sail

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John, Tessa, Hugo (12) and Maggie (9)

Having spent 10 years in DC, we moved onto the boat in June 2012, with the intent of sailing across the Atlantic to the Mediterranean for a year. As of June 2013, we've sailed from the U.S. (Annapolis, Maryland) to Bermuda, then to the Azores, to Lisbon and down the Atlantic coast of Portugal and Spain, through the Straits of Gibraltar, along the southern coast of Spain (with a quick trip to Morocco) to Ibiza, then Sicily, through the Corinth Canal and Greek islands, winter in Turkey, a few weeks in Israel, with a side trip to Egypt. After a month in the Adriatic in spring, we all sailed to the Azores, where mom, cat and kids left by airplane, leaving John and crew to bring the boat back home to the Chesapeake.