Sailing Adventures of Mai Tai

With Christmas behind us, we will soon be entering 2023 and looking forward to our onward adventures, sailing west towards Gibraltar and the Atlantic Ocean. But for now, we will stay here, waiting for the winter weather to pass. Many of the cruisers here, fly home for Christmas, leaving their boats, safely moored in the Finike marina. But those of

We are back onboard Mai Tai now. We were only gone 16 days, but it seemed much longer than that. Probably because of all the stuff we packed into each day. Turkey is an amazing country to travel in. We rented a car so we could be completely independent, and we booked into small pensions/hotels along the way. We ended

Since my return from the wonderful trip to Australia and New Zealand, already 7 weeks have flown by.  Lane had the boat all clean and tidy, but still with a few unfinished jobs.  In his defence, he was waiting for the spare parts that I was carrying in my suitcases back from NZ. Finike Marina has been a perfect place

Kay gets a holiday in New Zealand while Mai Tai gets an overhaul in Turkey. Yeah! So happy Lane and I are back together again after 3 months at opposite sides of the world. Well, it was supposed to be 2 months, but Lane realised he couldn’t have me move back on board to this mess!!!! We talked of renting

I can’t believe that it was just over 1 month ago that we were in Egypt, half way through the Suez Canal, waiting for a window of favourable winds, to sail up to our next destination in Turkey. But here we are. The Suez Canal, officially opened in 1869, is one of the most heavily used shipping routes of the

March 2022 We have finally made it to the Suez Canal. So happy to be here and at present moored at the Ismailia Yacht Club, which is half way along the Canal between Port Suez and Port Said. Port Said is where we exit to the Mediterranean Sea. It is really lovely here, spotlessly clean with friendly people, restaurant, hot

It is already February and we had hoped to be in the Mediterranean by now!! That was the plan when we left Kenya last September, to be in Turkey for Christmas, safely tucked away in a marina, where we could weather out the freezing cold Mediterranean winter.  It seems there have been a lot of nasty storms this year, so

Merry Christmas from Sudan! When we left Kenya in the middle of September we were headed directly for Djibouti, then up the Red Sea to the Suez Canal, into the Med in plenty of time for Christmas. We even had a marina booked for November in Tunisia. However, our detour to Oman to repair our engine took up a month

Now, safely anchored in Djibouti, we take a look back at our month spent in the charming country of Oman. It was during our recent stay in Zanzibar and Kenya that I first learned a bit more about Oman. I began to read books about how Oman had been the centre of the world trading routes for thousands of years,

Before leaving Kenya, we were so busy preparing Mai Tai for this trip north, plus visiting more of the fascinating areas around Kilifi, that we did not manage to get a final post out of our adventures in this wonderful country. As soon as we arrived in Port Salalah, in Oman, we first wanted to get the blog posted of