A PLAN
We have awoken after 6 months of developing and now finishing the conversion of the old Burntisland Co-Op building into a Dance Studio (www.thespaceupstairs.com) and café.
We now find that winter and Easter have been and gone!
It is time to answer the question: are we going sailing - if so where and when? Selkie Dancer is ashore (I think/hope) at Cagliari, Sardinia. I fly out on 22 May
to do some hull maintenance before launching later that week. Jinti joins me on 27 May.
We will stay in the Cagliari area for the first week in June and then head for Malta to enable Jinti to return to Scotland over the period 22-27 July. Then across to Zankinthos/Zante in the Ionian for 10 August, Corfu area for the August Bank Holiday (27-30 Aug) and Preveza/Levkas before another spell in the UK 10-20 Sept and then an October cruise looking for somewhere to leave Selkie Dancer over the winter.
You will note 6 weeks to get from Sardinia to Malta - I suspect that we will go round the north of Sicily (possibly bouncing off Tunisia first) up to Naples, down to the Aeolian Isles, through Messina, Siracusa and on to Malta/Gozo. Malta to Zante will be a three day direct transit when the weather is "right". Then it is a loaf through the Ionian for the rest of the season.
Pretty vague but nonetheless a plan, subject to weather, ash, economic melt down and other (as yet unknown) crises/commitments!
Andy, Burntisland, April 2010
We have awoken after 6 months of developing and now finishing the conversion of the old Burntisland Co-Op building into a Dance Studio (www.thespaceupstairs.com) and café.
We now find that winter and Easter have been and gone!
It is time to answer the question: are we going sailing - if so where and when? Selkie Dancer is ashore (I think/hope) at Cagliari, Sardinia. I fly out on 22 May
to do some hull maintenance before launching later that week. Jinti joins me on 27 May.
We will stay in the Cagliari area for the first week in June and then head for Malta to enable Jinti to return to Scotland over the period 22-27 July. Then across to Zankinthos/Zante in the Ionian for 10 August, Corfu area for the August Bank Holiday (27-30 Aug) and Preveza/Levkas before another spell in the UK 10-20 Sept and then an October cruise looking for somewhere to leave Selkie Dancer over the winter.
You will note 6 weeks to get from Sardinia to Malta - I suspect that we will go round the north of Sicily (possibly bouncing off Tunisia first) up to Naples, down to the Aeolian Isles, through Messina, Siracusa and on to Malta/Gozo. Malta to Zante will be a three day direct transit when the weather is "right". Then it is a loaf through the Ionian for the rest of the season.
Pretty vague but nonetheless a plan, subject to weather, ash, economic melt down and other (as yet unknown) crises/commitments!
Andy, Burntisland, April 2010
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