Saltair Afloat

On the evening of 3 August 1492, Columbus departed from Palos de la Frontera with three ships. The largest was a carrack, the Santa María, owned and captained by Juan de la Cosa, and under Columbus ...

Nous sommes à Las Palmas, Grand Canaries pour quelques semaines et bien que la scolarisation de Seth soit difficile nous essayons au moins de faire des excursions pédagogiques! Mardi nous sommes all ...

We love Madeira! We arrived late Saturday night (September 16) and decided to anchor instead of trying to moor in the Marina in the dark. It was pitch black and we safely dropped and secured the anc ...

We were in Brest about to commence the one week passage to Madeira and wanted to do some offshore fishing (no, not the email scam). We asked our friend Paul who came to do the passage with us to help ...

Sailing from Brest to Madeira was my first offshore passage and all my expectations and preparations were based on testimony and experiences from others. I read many guides and articles to gather tip ...

We're now well past the halfway point and I have a few minutes free this afternoon to contemplate our journey so I thought I would update our followers. We left Saturday afternoon from Bre ...

Our official school year has begun even tough Seth kept up with math, writing and spanish all summer long. We are offshore on day 5 of a passage from Brest to Madeira. The first few days we had to ad ...

We're finally on our way to Madeira! You can follow our progress at: https://forecast.predictwind.com/tracking/display/Saltair We left Brest at 3:30pm yesterday (Saturday, the 9th), well within our ...

We have been in Brest, France this week and besides indulging in fresh baguettes and croissants we are busy getting ready for our first offshore passage on Saltair! Up to now we have been coastal, st ...

We crossed the English Channel heading south from the UK on the 23rd of August, heading for Alderney in the Channel Islands. Alderney is the furthest north of the Channel Islands and at roughly 80nm ...