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This blog records the travels of Savarna, a Hanse 531 yacht, following our taking delivery in June 2005 from the Hanse yard in Greifswald, on the Baltic. Having currently sailed as far as Croatia over the past three summers we are planning to head for Turkey via Greece in 2008, then complete the East Med Rally in April 2009 which will take us to Israel and Egypt and then the ARC at the end of 2009 to get us to the Carribean then to New Zealand via the Panama and the Pacific.

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Back in cruising mode

Posted at 9:28 PM, Sep. 17, 2007

It is now Monday evening 17th September and we are anchored in a smaill very enclosed bay on Otok Kaprije after leaving Sukosan earlier today. Autumn has definitely arrived and while shorts and t-shirt during the day as soon as the wind gets up it cools down. We arrived back at Sukosan after the all to familiar 36 hour door to door transit time via London. Picked up a rental car at Zadar airport and were able to drive into Zadar and find a couple  supermarkets open so we could provision up the boat in readiness for a departure the following day. Velimir had done a great job with the boat and the teak decks and stainless work were sparkling so saved me a job - he had also arranged to put some shelving in the after heads cupboards, serviced the stove  which wasn't up to Pam's requirements, completed yet some more work on the stern door, arranged for an engine service etc. So we are in good shape.

 

We are heading south to Split and will arive there Wednesday night to meet up with friends coming in from NZ for a weeks sailing.om Thursday. We will then cruise around the southern islands and then depending on the weather will go up to Venice for a few days and the  cruise back to Sukosan via Istria which we are told is a lovely part of Croatia.

 

Thats all for now!

 

Cheers

Keith

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Welcome Back to the Med

Posted by swagman at 6:05 PM, Sep. 23, 2007

Hi Guys,
Welcome back and hope the trip north goes well.
Good luck with the world cup also. Know the All Blacks are pretty unbeatable but this time SA and even Oz are firing - so should be a close comp.
Keep in touch
John and Sue
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Posted by at 9:42 PM, Sep. 26, 2007

Hi John and Sue - good to hear from you guys (back in England temporarily last time I looked at your blog) and trust arrangements for the ARC are progressing well. We are backing the AB's for sure - after all it has been 20 years.

Cheers
Keith and Pam

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