Malua was shipped from Sydney Australia on the deck of a Seven
Sea freighter. We were sailing in the Pacific in February and then in
the Mediterranean in March! From April until November we sailed
eastwards enjoying the culture and people of the countries around the
Med. Before we arrived on board Malua I visited my
UK relatives and spent a few days in London.
Our experience is chronicled in the follow sections:
During the 2008 season we started off from Marmaris in Turkey and
sailed north along the Turkish coast heading for Istanbul. We
visited some of the best ruins in the world.
The next few pages is the account of the trip north within Turkey.
From Turkey we sailed to the northern region of Greece. The next
few pages is the account of the trip through Northern Greece.
2009 started in Marmaris Turkey
where I prepared Malua for the season. I then sailed alone to Kos
in Greece to be met by Richard and Marita who wanted to do some serious
sailing early in the season. We sailed north towards
Athens. I dropped them off on an island to take the ferry and
plane home while I continued on towards Athens. Denny arrived at
the end of May. We sailed through the Corinth Canal to the Ionian
and then the Aegean to Venice.
Malua
was wintered in Preveza in western Greece. While the rest of
Europe had a very bad winter with Britian under a blanket of snow the
temperature i the boatyard only dropped to 6 degrees, however at the
end of the year it rained so the water tanks on the Ionian islands are
full. Like previous years I arrived early to get the boat ready
for the season. Iain helped me because my shoulder was not quite
right. He left to travel in Europe and I sailed around the Ionian
waiting for Denny. We will sail to Corsica and western Italy
