We enjoyed our 7 hour passage from Astipalea to Kos 2 days ago. Our fist hour was in light winds at 60 degrees. We unfurled the Code 0 and watched as Astipalea disappeared behind us. The wind dropped completely and for the next two and a half hours we motored across flat blue seas. As we approached the northern coast of Kos, the wind began to fill in directly astern. Perfect conditions for "Lady in Red" our Wingaker parasail. With our Code 0 up we can usually get our boat spe

We pick up plastic trash in almost every bay and cove in which we anchor along our journey. We are currently anchored in a tiny bay on the island of Astipalea in the the middle of the Aegean sea of Greece. We have a 7 hour sail ahead of us tomorrow to Kos and it took us 5 hours to reach here from Amorgos. Basically it is far from anywhere. Yet on this tiny beach behind us which is 65 metres long (I paced it along the waterline) we collected 68 plastic caps from water and cold

Today's post comes from the Little Cyclades and once again the trash was collected from what we believe is the best anchorage on the island. Anyone visiting Skhinousa and looking for an anchorage with few signs of human settlement - no houses, churches, roads, lights or power lines, will love this bay. It is not written about in the Greek Waters Pilot but has an anchor sign on the map in the book. It is located in the north west of the island, a short distance north of the sm

The last 24 hours have really highlighted for me the wonderful contrast that makes life onboard such a rich and vibrant experience. We're sailing in the Cyclades and have had more full-on sailing days in the last 5 weeks than we did in 3 months last year. Some of the days out at sea and nights at anchor have had us in a state of total focus and complete concentration and in the case of Catherine, some anxiety. Then a day pops up in which everything is perfect. Last evening we

When we bought Lady Roslyn at the end of 2015, she came with 2 x 25kg Delta galvanised anchors and a collapsible 25kg Fortress aluminium anchor. At the time we had 70metres of 12mm galvanised chain attached to our primary Delta anchor. We want to have as many options as possible when coming into an anchorage. We also want to feel that our anchor is holding us VERY securely and re-setting itself if the wind switches direction at night or when we are not on the boat. In 2016, w

The post below was submitted today to the Med Sailing Facebook group which has over 5000 members. We're hoping to encourage others to collect plastic trash along the way to clean up the bays and coves where we all anchor. In the hopes that it will motivate the members of this group to join in, today's Trash Tuesday's post has the addition of the exact location of the cove in which the 2 big bags and a bucket of plastic trash was collected Does the exact location matter you ma

Three weeks on board Lady Roslyn by ourselves has been an adventurous one where we went from full speed ahead out of Athens, to a dead stop in Sifnos and then off again. After a few extremely busy days of prepping our yacht in Athens, we headed off to the Cyclades by ourselves – 3 glorious weeks lay ahead of us before our first guests arrived. A couple of days in Kythnos at Sandbar Bay were blissful where we started to relax, swim in a still chilly ocean, unpack and re-organi

Sometimes all the elements come together to give you a perfect passage. Our crossing from Mega Livadi bay on Serifos to Kamares on Sifnos was one of those days. We put up our main and genoa as we left Mega Livadi and sailed deep downwind to the south-western tip of Serifos. We continued a short distance offshore to avoid the wind shadow of the island and then gybed and set course for Sifnos. The wind angle was perfect at around 70 degrees from our port side. The sea state was

Catherine & I flew from Cape Town last week, landing in Athens on 13 May and had 3 marathon days of tidying, provisioning and getting LADY ROSLYN ready for departure. We set off for Cape Sounion on 15 May and have had a fabulous week meandering out into the Cyclades. We have no set plans other than to be in Paros (weather permitting) on 3 June to collect family and friends, who will be with us for 2 weeks. We have been at anchor every night so far and have spent 2 nights in S

Today is the start of the 2018 La Grande Motte Boat Show in France. It's the largest catamaran specific boat show in the world. We were recently contacted by a journalist from a French sailing magazine Voiles et Voiliers to say that they had been following our journey via our website and wanted to know if they could use some of our images and information on our website for the magazine. A few days ago we received a pdf copy of the official La Grande Motte Boat Show magazine a