Stephen Mackenzie

Motoring most of the way, with a little motor sail. One overnight

depart Mallorca in fairly big swell, 2m, wind on beam. Good days sailing with jib, code zero and a few iterations of sail plan as wind moved. Swell reduced to almost zero, giving beautiful conditions . 7pm arrival into anchor on Ibiza

Departed Porto Torres in 2m swells, headed upwind into a 20kn breeze. mix of motor and sail, over next 48hours with 2 overnight shifts, around north coast of Menorca, finding shelter in a little cove for an overnight anchorage. continued onto Palma next morning where we anchored in the bay. crew was AndrewM and myself. picked up David Spence by dinghy, awaiting conditions to allow us to sail to Spanish mainland. 9th October, fuelled boat and did some prep for next leg