Season's Highlights

From: The Graphics Fairy

This brings to a close our 5th year of cruising life (Yes, five years!!) with Miss WJ3.  Who'd have thought... Or imaged the ground and sea miles we've covered in that time.  Hope you've enjoyed the ride along with us!

Windjammer & the cruisin’ Motleys would like to wish you all the best for the festive season and send our thanks for joining us this year - either in person or on the couch at home.  It's been a lot of fun with the odd hairy moment.  That's sailing, so the Cap'n tells me.  Meanwhile, we can't believe how the months have just disappeared so quickly again this year. 

We’ve finally put together a very lavish photo album from this season’s best.  (Click here or follow the 2012 album link over on the right.)  Note - this is season FIVE!  We had to include heaps of photos from Morocco of course, and then there’s the best of moments with BCK…  All a lot of fun and way too much shopping, and eating and walking and drinking and shopping and talking.  You know the drill!

Despite all the photo opportunities, we had only 12 days of sailing this year – although a couple were quite long and either in fog or at night (or both – we do our best to be bold sailors sometimes.  Hmmm?).  So it’s a bit of a record with only 584nm tucked under our belts.  Still we had fun, learned how to live the marina life and behave on bus tours. 

Cruising Grounds 2012
And yes, we did doddle about in the Med for a wee bit!

The Cap’n informs me, as he heads out to lavish attention on his mooring minder (a 25ft Top Hat - another of his growing fleet), that his wrist is really improving.  Our sights are therefore set on making Turkey next year.  The First Mate will settle up the nav plans closer to a departure date from Aus, although the general program will be 3 months to get from Portugal to Turkey, then take some time to explore the Eastern Med coastline.  Simple?  We hope so….just a bit of sailing to work through.  Soooo glad we rested this year!  Look forward to catching up in 2013.