The Catamaran Adventures of Noel and Ceu

Archive for 2014

Current Location: Seget Donji, Trogir, CroatiaCurrent Position: 43 31 N 016 13.57 E Click to view map. Distance sailed since last post: 62 nautical miles. View the map of our voyage track hereHello! I’m Heidi, Noel’s mum and, together with my husband, Elmer, we are spending a week as guests of Noel & Ceu on (Click to Read More...)
Current Location: Pavlesina, Ugljan Island, CroatiaCurrent Position: 44 7.83 N 015 4.26 E Click to view map. Distance sailed since last post: 139 nautical miles. View the map of our voyage track hereWe woke up in the middle of the night with thunder storms.  We were about to leave our anchorage this morning and got (Click to Read More...)
The thing about having visitors on board is that you have to make some preparations for their arrival. This time, however, those preparations were a little unusual! My son, Ben, and his cousin, Mac were due to fly in to Pula on RyanAir on Tuesday afternoon. So we stationed ourselves in Pula, not far from (Click to Read More...)
Ohhhh…the places we’ve been! We are picking up from  May 23th. After we left the National Park of Miljet we headed to Korcula. Very cute Medieval town with many narrow little streets and the waterfront lined with Restaurants and shops. We anchored in a nice bay just south of the town.   Korcula is also (Click to Read More...)
Current Location: Burano anchorage, Venice lagoon, ItalyCurrent Position: 45 29.35 N 012 25.4 E Click to view map. Distance sailed since last post: 70 nautical miles. View the map of our voyage track hereThe forecast was for calm winds. And when we set off from Rovinj at 10pm last night it was, indeed a flat (Click to Read More...)
Current Location: Pula, CroatiaCurrent Position: 44 52.7 N 013 50.62 E Click to view map. Distance sailed since last post: 32 nautical miles. View the map of our voyage track hereWe set off this morning at 8:45am (wow – a lie in!) with the wind blowing 20-25kts from the north east. Since we wanted to (Click to Read More...)
Current Location: Otok Koludarc, CroatiaCurrent Position: 44 33.07 N 014 25.73 E Click to view map. Distance sailed since last post: 166 nautical miles. View the map of our voyage track hereSince Ben has booked a flight to arrive in Pula on Tuesday, we figured it was time to get ourselves in that direction! So, (Click to Read More...)
Current Location: Mljet National Park, CroatiaCurrent Position: 42 47.43 N 017 22.63 E Click to view map. Distance sailed since last post: 34 nautical miles. View the map of our voyage track hereHaving checked in at Cavtat (pronounced Tsavtat) our first stop was at World Heritage Site Dubrovnik.   We sailed around the (Click to Read More...)
Current Location: Dubrovnik, CroatiaCurrent Position: 42 40.28 N 018 7.26 E Click to view map. Distance sailed since last post: 193 nautical miles. View the map of our voyage track hereWell, we made it to Croatia! We left Corfu in pretty calm conditions with both the jib and mainsail up, just about making 3.5kts. After (Click to Read More...)
Current Location: Agio Stefanos, Corfu, GreeceCurrent Position: 39 45.97 N 019 56.99 E Click to view map. Distance sailed since last post: 280 nautical miles. View the map of our voyage track hereOur strategy on leaving Turkey and dashing across to Greece was to get the south winds up the Adriatic before the prevailing and (Click to Read More...)