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Easter in Alghero
We arrived early on Good Friday to get Nimrod ready for the season. It was certainly warmer than the UK at around 12 degrees C but it was also overcast and windy. We touched down at 11am local time having … Continue reading
Flying visit
It seems incredible that it is almost three months since we left Nimrod in Marina Di Sant’Elmo. Jo has come back to check everything is okay and oversee the engine service. We would normally do this ourselves but we get … Continue reading
2012 blog stats
The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2012 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: 600 people reached the top of Mt. Everest in 2012. This blog got about 12,000 views in 2012. If every person who reached the … Continue reading
We have left our baby for the winter!
The last two days have been spent doing the final jobs to bed Nimrod down for the winter and a spot more sightseeing. On Sunday it was bright and sunny so we cycled to the other side of the bay … Continue reading
An interesting day out
It is 7 months today since we first left the UK. Most of the time, we have been pretty lucky with the weather but it seems that this last week the weather gods have turned against us. The high winds have … Continue reading
The downside of keeping the boat abroad
We flew back to Sardinia yesterday as we planned to take the boat out of the water to do some routine maintenance work. We needed to repair the paintwork where the shaft anode had ground into the hull in Mallorca … Continue reading
Winterisation
We have spent the last few days getting Nimrod ready to be left for the winter. This is making us very sad as it means that this episode of our adventure is drawing to a close. We have taken the … Continue reading
A very productive day
Apparently, the warm weather we are currently experiencing is not common for this time of year but we are not complaining! We took the opportunity of blue skies and temperatures in the 20s to continue to tick off our maintenance … Continue reading
Bosa
Today we decided to travel to Bosa, which is about 20 miles south of Alghero to look at a boatyard as we need some minor work done over the winter and we are trying to find a yard where we … Continue reading
Back on Nimrod
We have spent the last week in the UK sorting out various admin things and Jo needed to be back for her club committee meeting. It was a shock to the system landing at Stansted to a very chilly and … Continue reading
Nimrod Oceanlord 