Category: Travel

Porto and Oporto

Recently, we were able to show our good friends, Ari and Yani, our boat – they are originally from Argentina and had been our neighbors for a few months before moving to another apartment here in Madrid.  We meet regularly to solve the world’s problems; our solutions are frequently offered in an eclectic mix of

The Southampton Boat Show

What better way to celebrate our 16th Wedding Anniversary than to go to a boat show? Well, there are better ways, but the days matched up and we’d really been wanting to visit a European boat show as we had a number of things we wanted, but couldn’t find in Madrid or Porto. After a

Video – Horta to Porto

This is last of the 4 videos from our trip across the Atlantic.  Hope you enjoyed them! Crossing the Atlantic – Horta to Porto      

Video – Landfall in the Azores

Here’s our third video.  Days 10-14 up to landfall in the Azores. Landfall in the Azores    

Video – Crossing the Atlantic – The Windy Days

This is the second video, days 6-10, where we had a lot of strong breeze. Crossing the Atlantic – The Windy Days  

Video – Crossing the Atlantic – First 5 Days

We shot about 8 hours of video during the crossing.  Trying to distill that down to a few watchable bits takes some time, but it is quite fun.  Since we are quite new to video editing we are taking a two-pronged approach.  First, we are making 3 or 4 short videos for the ADD types.

Snapshots from Porto

Shearwater is currently at the Douro Marina in Portugal, where we have been quite happy with the helpfulness of the marina staff and the pleasant town of Vila Nova de Gaia, which is right across the River Douro from Porto.  We spent this past weekend cleaning up a bit, as well as collecting some items from

Snapshots from the Azores

We’re slowly getting back to our normal routines, and we took the opportunity to unplug and rest (facilitated by the broken wifi in our apartment that was just fixed) after arriving back in Spain.  We had a happy reunion with our dogs, and we’re now going through our pictures and video to share some of

Our passage in a few pictures (more to come)!

We are still working through our pictures and videos, but here are a few pictures of our passage to the Azores from the US.  Enjoy!

Bem-vindo aos Açores!

Landfall.  Land Ho!  We made it to the Azores! Last night at 3am, in absolutely glassy conditions, we motored ever so slowly into the harbor at Horta, following a fishing boat into the entrance.  We intended to drop the anchor for couple of hours until the sun came up just inside the breakwater.   As we

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