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Across the Mediterranean in a Mini: Albenga
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Across the Mediterranean in a Mini. Saturday, July 23, 2011. Took a side-trip to Albenga, a town built on the ruins of an old encampment where a Roman legion was stationed. The river has filled in the sea with sediment, so the encampment, which must have been on the coast back in the second century, is a bit inland now. It took a $1.80 train ride to get there. The town is laid out on a very regular grid. The Romans apparently loved 90 degree angles. Piazza in the afternoon sun. There is an undersea museu...
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Across the Mediterranean in a Mini: The Mentors
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Across the Mediterranean in a Mini. Launching Guizmo was not easy. For one, I had sailed a minitransat only once before, on the test sail with the previous owner before I purchased the boat. I had never sailed a boat with a rotating spinnaker pole, canting keel, canards, triple adjustable backstays and so much electronics. Someone who knows what they're doing had to show me how to set these things up and operate them properly. I was incredibly lucky that I came across two incredibly knowledgeable and jus...
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Across the Mediterranean in a Mini: The Route
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Across the Mediterranean in a Mini. Click on the image below to see the tentative route on Google Maps. View Routes from Mallorca to Turkey. In a larger map. Contact me if you want to edit the map and mark spots of interest on it. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Welcome to this blog documenting my crossing of the Mediterranean, from Mallorca, Spain to Marmaris, Turkey, in a minitransat. The End, for now. Mini Sisters, Part 2. Getting Close to the End. Living in a Mini. French and Italian meteo, Im onto you.
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Across the Mediterranean in a Mini: Getting Close to the End
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Across the Mediterranean in a Mini. Wednesday, July 27, 2011. Getting Close to the End. I reached Loano, and the trip needs to come to an end. This is partly because of some good news. Back at work that requires my undivided attention for some time, and partly because the boat developed a chainplate problem that needs to be fixed. Chainplate. Not a terrible problem, but needs a fix. Thanks for an epic ride. Wishing you every success on land with this good natured competitive sailors toast:. The Mediterra...
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Across the Mediterranean in a Mini: Mini Sisters, Part 2
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Across the Mediterranean in a Mini. Wednesday, July 27, 2011. Mini Sisters, Part 2. Came across minis #126 and #146 in Genoa. Saw them on the train ride, and could only take this picture. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Welcome to this blog documenting my crossing of the Mediterranean, from Mallorca, Spain to Marmaris, Turkey, in a minitransat. I'm a computer scientist in his late thirties. Until I started on this voyage, I spent 99% of my time building software systems. The End, for now. As I sailed...
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Across the Mediterranean in a Mini: French and Italian meteo, I'm onto you
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Across the Mediterranean in a Mini. Sunday, July 24, 2011. French and Italian meteo, I'm onto you. This blog entry started out about weather prediction but turned into a rant on economics, partly because the media is going crazy about the EU debt crisis again and partly because it's hard to pass through multiple countries without subconsciously comparing them, but here goes. So, I saw the following in France over three consecutive days:. Day 1 French forecast: sunny, calm, Force 2. Perhaps this situation...
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Across the Mediterranean in a Mini: Loano
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Across the Mediterranean in a Mini. Tuesday, July 26, 2011. I felt like a conqueror going into Loano. For one, I had just done a pretty long passage spanning three countries and covering a substantial chunk of the globe. But more importantly, Loano turns out to be the backyard of the Doria family. Portrait of Andrea Doria. How pompous an admiral do you have to be. To pose as Neptune, with a trident in hand? Why is the Doria family so important? The locals have added LED lights to the main piazza. A minit...
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Across the Mediterranean in a Mini: Genoa
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Across the Mediterranean in a Mini. Thursday, July 28, 2011. Here are pics from around the Old Port area in Genoa. If this city does not look like the set of the City of Lost Children, I don't know what does. This boat was used in a movie about the pirate Blackbeard. There is a crescent and star on the flag. Not sure why Blackbeard would have used a crescent. They're really paying homage to the actual pirates that the Genoese fought. If this isn't steampunk, I don't know what is. Modern art, ancient walls.
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Across the Mediterranean in a Mini: Port Porquerolles
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Across the Mediterranean in a Mini. Tuesday, July 5, 2011. So this is a sleepy old town that most everyone forgot, until about 50 years ago, when it became a well-known destination for the day crowds from Toulon, and the marking point for the west end of Cote d'Azur. Sir Humphrey ripping it up at 12 knots past more modern but slower boats. Anchoring spot. Note ice cream man in his zodiac. My rope ladder. Not the big coil on the lifeline, but the little rope that goes from the winch into the ocean. I'm a ...
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Across the Mediterranean in a Mini: Living in a Mini
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Across the Mediterranean in a Mini. Monday, July 25, 2011. Living in a Mini. Some people have asked what it's like to live in a minitransat, and I realized that I don't have that many pictures of the inside. So here's one, taken from the area in the bow sleeping area, looking towards the cockpit hatch. You can see the bulkhead just past my cozy sleeping bag, then there is the mast and the canards, followed by the the canting keel assembly and the famous keelbox. On shore with a dry-bag full of electronics.
