Our Tracks and Adventures
French Polynesia, Tonga, Fiji, New Calidonia and home
Galapagos and Pacific Crossing 2014
Leaving USA, Cuba and Panama - 2014
Caribbean and USA - 2013
Malua and her crew crossed the Atlantic in 20 days from the Canaries to
Barbados. There Piers, the crew left and Denny joined. We spend
Christmas
and New Year in the SE Caribbean before I sailed north through the
island chain heading for Cuba. I spent a month on the southern
Cuban coast cruising and doing land travel before fighting my way round
the
NW coast to Hemingway Marina and Havana. It was a slog north to
Florida and the reception at West Palm Beach was anything but
welcoming. From there I sailed and motored along the coast and
through the Inter Coastal Waterway to the Chesapeake and Delaware and
on to New Your City.
A short spell in Long Island Sound before sailing to Block Island in
the state of Rhode Island. Then south on the outside to Cape May
and to Annapolis. Malua was put on the hard at Deltaville in the
Chesapeake while I returned to Australia after a year away. Next
year Malua will point her bow westwards through the Panama and into the
Pacific.
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Spain, Portugal and Atlantic Crossing - 2012
Malua has been in the Mediterranean for five years so it is now time to
sail westward towards America. Last year we tried to travel
through the rivers and canals of France to come out in the English
Channel. As you know we had to turn back to the Med. This
year Malua starts on the French coast and cruises through the Balearic
- Majorca, Menorca and Ibiza then on towards Spain and Portugal before
heading south to Morocco and the Canaries. We will leave before
the armada and reach the Caribbean before Christmas. Barbados is
the intended landfall.
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5 Years in the Mediterranean
Mediterranean - 2011 - French Canals
Why the French canals for the summer of 2011. We so enjoyed
the French speaking Corsica we thought we would enjoy France! We
still have to take some weight off Malua before we can go into the
shallow canals but if we can reduce the draft Malua is off to Paris
then on to the English channel. The summer has started and a very
different adventure has just begun. The mast was in a rack in
Port Napoleon but landed up in La Havre. We started up the rivers
and canals of France during one of the driest spring on record, then it
began to rain not before disaster struck. We are returning to the
Med.
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Mediterranean 2010 - Corsica, Riviera and Cote D'Azure
The 2010 summer cruise has started. Malua was launched at the end
of April where I stayed in the Ionian until the end of May when I
collected Denny who arrived via Athens. We sailed pass the
south of the toe of Italy to Sicily, through the Straits of Messina and
then north up the west coast to Capri where we stooped for a few days
before crossing over to Sardinia. From there we sailed north to
Corsica to the wedding and the best cruising in four years of being in
the Med. We left Italy after cruising Elba and the Gulf of Genoa.
France Riviera and the Cote D'Azure with all its glitz was next.
We will winter at the mouth of the Rhone.
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Mediterranean 2009 - Greece, Croatia and Venice
Starting in Marmaris, Turkey, Malua sailed westwards through the
Cyclades to Athens, through the Corinth Canal to the Ionian Islands,
then north through the Aegean to Venice, returning to Greece via
Croatia and Montenegro. Malua was hauled out in Preveza Marina,
Greece.
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From Marmaris we sailed north along the Turkish coast, through the
Dardanelles and Sea of Marmara, to Istanbul. We returned past Gallipoli
to cruise the uncrowded northern Greek Halkidiki peninsula. Then a
quick dash to Kos and into Turkey to haul Malua out for the winter.
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In
February 2007 we shipped Malua from Australia to the Med via the Panama
Canal. She was off-loaded at Palma de Mallorca in Spain in April 2007.
April and May were spent cruising the wonderful Balearic Islands
(Spanish), Sardinia (Italian) and Corsica (French).
Then on to Rome for two weeks and south to Amalfi, sailing past the
volcanic island of Stromboli to Sicily where we had some memorable
experiences. Setting off again from Syracuse, we stopped for a
while in the Greek Pelopponese, home of the Spartans and the original
Olympic Games. Then followed a leisurely cruise through the
Cyclades to Kos, Symi and Rhodes. Our journey ended in Marmaris,
Turkey, where we left Malua, on the hard, under a gum tree!
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Australia - Early Cruises
In 2004 we set out to cruise to
Tasmania then to
New Zealand and then onto the
Pacific Islands
