The joy of anchoring with 25+ knots of wind

It is hard to believe that we started living onboard The Ocean Deva from the 8th July 2020 and now a year has already passed – we are...

Our first bay, just 3 hours away from Cagliari was a real pleasure for us. The water was a turquoise blue, 6 metres deep, crystal clear...

Cagliari, where the Mistral meets the Sirocco.

This leg of our journey was an important step for us – we planned a 7-day, 800 nm trip without any crew that had more experience than us,...

After our 1,002 nautical mile journey from Brest we arrived safely in Gibraltar and began enjoying the sunshine and warmth. We actually...

Leg 3; Cascais to Gibraltar Cascais turned out to be a lovely small town, upmarket satellite to Lisbon with back streets in the shade of...

Our first stop after Brest, 503 nautical miles later was Povoa de Varzim, a small marina and fishing port a little way down the...

Our first attempt to cross the Bay of Biscay was in October of last year. We had arrived in Camaret Sur Mer, just south of Brest and...

By the time you read this, we have already left Brest and sailed some significant distance south to Lisbon, but there were a number of...

Solar power is within the grasp of every sailor!

With 2 of us on the boat, they call our structure “short handed” or "double handed" as there are many jobs to do for normally a larger...

Time to get some extra anchor chain...

It looks like the snow has come to us all in this week of February. Here on the boat we are cosy and warm with our central heating system...

“Le Raz de Seine” is a narrow section of water between the mainland of Brittany, France and a series of islands and rocky outcrops. It...

Well prepared for the post Brexit era.

France, New Year's Eve and Champagne... a perfect combination!

Shaken but not stirred...earthquake in Zagreb and we were there!

Having lost our weather window to cross the Bay of Biscay we are embraced by Brest.

Autumn storms are preventing us to go further than Brest. Patience is the answer as well as having a good chat with the weather gods...