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  • Delivering “42”: Sardinia to Palma, Mallorca

    Delivering “42”: Sardinia to Palma, Mallorca

    Leaving from Cagliari, Sardinia, our planned destination was not originally Palma, Mallorca, but Valencia Spain. Another passage filled with the lumpy upwind sailing typical of the Med in Winter and a late night jib sheet breaking left us with no Jib about halfway, and so we decided to take a hard right and make an…

  • Delivering “42”: Palermo, Sicily to Sardinia

    Delivering “42”: Palermo, Sicily to Sardinia

    After about a week of boat work, made more challenging and fun by the fact that nobody aboard “42” spoke fluent Italian and so part trips were a muddle of google translate and miming (Just try to mime “Black water pump” or “3/8 line clutch”. It’s not easy!), we headed out of the harbour and…