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September 10, 2008 Our Final Day Sail on Pacific Bliss We are leading a caravan of six vehicles from St. Cyprien to Canet, stopping every so often to make sure the VW van loaded with the five Brist children is managing to make the turns. We let other cars—not part of our procession—pass. No, this is not a wedding or a funeral. But it is a major event. We are taking the grandchildren, nephews and nieces with us for our last day sail on Pacific Bliss. What a way to end our circumnavigation! More! |
September 17, 2008 The Big Bash |
August 28, 2008 Canet, France Closing the Loop We are one mile from the entrance to Canet Harbor. This is the place where it all began…We have closed the loop and have come full circle… (More). |
July 11-13, 2008 Night of the Nets: Passage to Italy The first day of the passage was uneventful, although lumpy at times. By evening of the second night, a light sirocco (south wind) came up. We raised the main for the first time since our crew, Kaela and Randi Jo, came on board Pacific Bliss in Porto Rafti, Greece. But by 0200, in the south of Italy near Sicily, we learned first-hand about the Sicilian custom of tuna fishing, called Mattanza (The Killing). The Pacific Bliss mascot is the dolphin. Now we can truly sympathize with those dolphins—trapped and struggling to find a way out as the nets close in an ever-tightening circle—because we were trapped ourselves…(More). |
June 4 – June 18, 2008 Island Hopping across the Aegean from Turkey to Greece, Part II This was the passage where we discovered the fickle winds of the Mediterranean, and that sailing this part of the world is not for wimps after all. (More) |
June 4 – June 19, 2008 Island Hopping across the Aegean from Turkey to Greece This was the passage where we discovered the fickle winds of the Mediterranean, and that sailing this part of the world is not for wimps after all… (More). |
June 1, 2008 Magical Cappadocia Awesome. Incredible. Stupendous. There are not enough adjectives to describe this mythological, fairy-tale land. There is no place like it in the world… (More) |
May 8-14, 2008 Culinary Cruising: Sailing the Turkish Southwestern Coast Gunter has fallen in love with this new form of cruising wherein one determines the destination of the day by the menus offered in the various restaurants along the way…More. |
April 27, 2008 Touring along the Southeastern Turkish Coast You know you’re rushing the season when you come out of a hotel toilet to find mothballs in the wash basin…“No way,” says Gunter in Kaunos. “I’m not slip-sliding through the mud for an hour…” More. |
April 6, 2008 Tiptoeing through the Tulips We are fortunate to arrive in Istanbul—on our way back to Pacific Bliss at Marmaris Yacht Marina—during the spring tulip festival. It turns out that tulips came to Holland via Turkey…More. |
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