Posting this from home when I should probably be finishing the packing but we are off early tomorrow morning for four weeks and our plan is to leave Olbia in Sardinia by the weekend, all being well and after Sequel has had an engine service. You are possibly thinking that maybe we should have arranged for that to be done before we returned to Sardinia but the shipyard in which she is in wanted an arm and a leg for doing so and we have found a very nice Dutchman who will do it for just an arm when she is back in the water which is probably the best time anyway. We are heading for Cagliari on the south coast of Sardinia where we are being joined again by our first crew from earlier in the year, Matt & Heather, on 14 September.
We need the extra crew to accompany us across from Sardinia to Sicily which will take us about 24 hours and they are staying with us until Friday 23.
Our plan then is to get to Malta by 03 October where we have organised for the boat to be taken out of the water for the winter and we hope to return home on Tuesday 04 October. Knowing us we will probably make it to Malta early and bring the date forward.
I have said that I will try to avoid going on about the wind and cleaning the boat endlessly - I am not sure if that is going on endlessly or cleaning the boat endlessly - but on the whole those two things seem to be our main concerns.
We are looking forward to returning if for no other reason than we are fed up with the cold and fairly gloomy English summer and a little sunshine before the winter will be lovely.
Needless to say we have to return by early October anyway for our grand-daughter's first birthday or we would be disinherited by my daughter.
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