Posts Tagged ‘Yachtmaster’
It started yesterday in the early morning. Wind was up to 30 something kts in no time. It slowly increased over the whole day, but we had no problems at all to keep the boats together. Queens Way Marina in Gib showed a totally different picture in the early evening hours. Cleats came off the [...]
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Tags: gibraltar, sailing, sails ripped, storm, Yachtmaster
30 kts expected for exam
That is not really what we wanted. Currently there is a big system north west of us bringing along up to 30 knots of wind with rain by Friday noon and that will last until Saturday noon/afternoon. We had almost no wind wind during the last couple of days and there is definitely no wind expected [...]
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Tags: gibraltar, sailing, Yachtmaster, yachtmaster exam
Photos Yachtmaster Prep
Here we go. The latest photos from my prep week. All pics taken, while at anchor just off a beach at Punta Canera at the edge of Gib Bay. Will, Ed, Michael and our instructor Sean.
Have a great day. Kosta
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Tags: anchoring, gibraltar, sailing, Yachtmaster
Boat damaged…
Yesterday was a pretty cool sailing day again. Will had to do his last blind navigation, we all did some practice on sailing on to a buoy, which was spot on for all of us and after that we anchored off for some real good lunch, Will prepared for us. Around 1400 we headed straight [...]
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Engine died…
Third day of prep. Sun was shining. Almost no wind – 3 bft. We skipped leaving the berth in the morning and everybody on the boat did a safety brief. I did everything that could possibly happen on deck. In detail… man over board equipment, flares, helicopter rescueing, life raft and all the other bits [...]
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First day of prep with rain
Sunday 2300 I finally walked from the airport to Gibraltar Marina Bay. Our flight was 5 ours late. Actually I arrived by bus because our flight got diverted to Malaga. There we had to wait for a bus that would take us the 100 something kilometers to Gib. Reason for that? Heavy thunderstorms in and [...]
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Over the weekend – while I was trying to re-organize my bag for the x time – I figured that over the last 3 weeks I visited 8 countries (Italy, UK, Gibraltar, Spain, Portugal, Morocco, Austria and Germany) and travelled 6500 miles (roughly) through the air (4300 miles), by car (1700 miles) and on a boat [...]
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Tags: around Europe, sailing, Travel, Yachtmaster
Back home for 3 weeks
I am back home for three weeks. Martin, our instructor for the last two weeks – and the one we sailed to Portugal with – meant I would be ready for the Yachtmaster Prep. This basically is a two week intensive course where everything is being wrapped up in order to get you to pass [...]
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Tags: boats, cruising, gibraltar, Portugal, sailing, Spain, Yachtmaster
yachtmaster course continues
Two days and we are leaving for Gibraltar. We? That is Sandra, my wife and myself. Sandra will join me for two weeks for a Day Skipper course on Martins boat, that we chartered to get some more “intense” preparation. After that Sandra will return to Italy and I will continue for another 4 weeks [...]
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Tags: allabroad, asa, Fastrack, gibraltar, morocco, Portugal, sailboat, sailing, Spain, Yachtmaster
busy working – 2 weeks to go
Hi all, only two weeks and we will be back in Gib. 3 weeks ago the Telecom Italia switched off our internet line without prior notice or any reason at all. We called them every day to check for the status and every day we got another answer for “our problem”. Well, we had to [...]
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Tags: Fastrack, gibraltar, sailing, sailing blog, Yachtmaster
