28/6 Day 9: Sali – Kakan 32,6 NM – very quiet sailing through Kornati islands with light SE wind. Just before arriving to U. Potkucina on Kakan we did MOB training. Long, but very calm day full of sun and nice views. 29/6 Day 10: Kakan – Tribunj 13,8 NM – Weather is changing, sirocco […]
Finally we have stable internet connection and a peaceful evening to give you report about next 10 days of our journey. We originally planned to keep you informed more frequently, but we were struggling with local mobile data connection until now. 19/6 Day 2: Umag – Rovinj 23,6NM – mostly sailing with 15kt on our
After one day of motoring near Marina Sant Andrea, testing the new engine, we finally set off for good. 🙂 First day we enjoyed beautiful sailing with bora (NE 15-20 kts) on beam and we arrived to Umag in Croatia, as scheduled.
After long winter spent on ground and waiting for maintenance, Lotos was finally launched yesterday, 29th of May. All important is done now and we are nearly ready to go. Exactly a month later then we wanted originally, as we estimated when we were deciding to change our cruise. Maintenance done since our last update: Main
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As we’ve promised to write down a list of work that have been done on Lotos recently, here it is. All 9 winches were cleaned and serviced Main engine was dismantled and completely overhauled Toilet pumps and pipes in both heads were replaced Anchor was repainted, chain was changed from 8 to 10 mm Topsides were polished, hull sanded
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Our schedule has been finalised! We made a little offset in some places, to have more spare days for tourism. You can check updated dates on the page CRUISE 2014. On the bottom of that page you can find newly published link for detailed cruise plan.
We promised few weeks, but it took few months. The moment is finally here – we have new schedule for this year’s cruise! CRUISE 2014 Starting date is set to 18th June, which gives us some headroom to finish all repairs and preparations. We will head south along the Croatian coast, into the Kotor gulf in
As a part of preparation for the next year’s cruise Luigi and me set out to the Northern France, to seek the best wintering marina. 12 – 13 October 2013 After arrival in Paris Beauvais we rented a car and traveled few hours to the Boulogne-sur-Mer. First place was very cheap. Aside the fact it
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