2010 - 2012: Falmouth To The Med

Falmouth To The Med

>>  Cruise 2011 "From Falmouth to Menorca"
>>  Cruise 2012 "Mediterranean Islands voyage - from Menorca to the Islands of Dalmatia"


   --- To view or download cruise reports click the links to the logs, logs are PDF documents ---

On a visitor pontoon in Fowey, July 2010

View from the flybridge over Fowey harbour

Jane at the helm as we are watching yachts racing in the Pendennis Cup rounding the Menacles buoy.

'Family cruiser'. Suits the grandchildren and has got a bathing platform - just wait for the right weather.

City skyline

Photo By: John Doe
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Birthday Sparks

Photo By: John Doe
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With new covers, preparing to go to sleep in late autumn 2010.

Ashore at Falmouth Boat Yard. Being lifted in the course of stern gear work in spring.

CRUISING FROM FALMOUTH TO THE MED 2011


April 2011
The new season has started and the boat is, after sorting a few complications, ready to go.
Port Pendennis marina camera showing Tarilian on the morning of our departure to South.

On Easter Sunday, April 24th, we set out from Falmouth for our journey 180deg South. April 25th, after a direct crossing of nearly 30 hours we arrive at La Rochelle.

The plan for the following day had been to transfer the boat to La Coruna, but crossing the bay of Biscay the following night we encounter a serious technical problem on one of the engine's turbos, and decide to approach the nearer port of Santander. Here the boat will stay in the secure marina and be serviced by Volvo engineers to be ready for our long summer cruise.


In June 2011 we start our journey from Santander to the Med, following the Atlantic coast around the Iberian peninsula.


The first part along Galicia's coast includes visits to its Rias; then all the way South along the Portuguese coast, visiting Porto and Lisbon; subsequent highlights include the Algarve, finally reaching Andalusian Spain and our intermediate destination of Gibraltar in July.

Based on my blog at the time, I put together a full cruise report of the journey with photos.


View the first part of the cruise report, Log 2011 Part 1 "Falmouth to Gibraltar" (pdf 11MB).

In August Jane and I return to Gibraltar and set out for the second part of our 2011 journey to the Med.

This leads us along the Costa de Sol and Costa Blanca to the Balearic Islands, with the final destination for this year of Menorca.

 

Here you find the second part, Log 2011 Part 2 "Gibraltar to Menorca"(pdf 13MB).

After a long and exiting journey the destination for 2011 is reached, Tarilian is berthed at Marina di Mahon

At anchor in Taulera cove, Mahon (Menorca)

Over the winter Tarilian stays ashore at Pedro's Boat Yard in Mahon.

In August Jane and I return to Palermo to continue our cruise to the Aeolian islands and, through the Messina strait, to Sicily’s Etna region.
Then along Italy's Ionian coast towards the Strait of Otranto, and following Italy’s Adriatic coast North.
In the final leg, we start from Vieste, across the Adriatic sea to the Dalmatian islands and the Croatia mainland, where our target destination is Primosten (Sibenik).

 

In early September we complete our journey on schedule, and berth Tarilian in Central Dalmatia.

 

Here is the documentation of the second part of this year's journey, Palermo to Primosten, press Log 2012 "Mediterranean Voyage" Part2 (pdf 10MB).

We have taken our boat from Falmouth to the Adriatic Sea on its own steam.
The exciting 'transfer voyage' of two subsequent seasons has been completed successfully and on schedule.

The following seasons:
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