Katanne

We can be contacted at tomsampson(at)live.co.uk

30 October 2011

Hi Everyone,

After a busy summer in which we managed to sail, or far more often, motor sail, nearly 1450 nms, we have now settled in Agios Nikolaos marina, on the island of Crete, for the winter. Details of our journey this year are in the "Latest Voyage Details" section. I have added a new section which gives all the voyage details from 2004 to February 2008 so now all of our journey is on this site. I have also created a new page "Pirates and Convoys". It has the links to all that I have published about the subject. There is particular mention of my concerns and the actions I have taken to stop a Mr Rene Teimesen's morally indefensible plans to run a convoy next year purely for commercial gain.

To make the site a little easier to navigate I have put the photos for 2011 on a new page.

Jakaira, my grandson, came to see us again and enjoyed sailing round Corfu and Paxos. We also had a wonderful time when my sister Eileen and her husband Mike came to visit us in October

I was asked to write an article about our transit of the Corinth Canal for the Yachting Monthly for the Oct 2011 edition, which is copied in the journey details; they are also going to publish an article I wrote of an incident in the Suez Canal.

We plan to divide the winter between Crete and our home in Bridlington. It has been let for the last 7 years so we will have fun buying new furniture and everything else needed to live in comfort. We'll be there from the end of November until some time in January. Nicolette's son, Simon, is getting married to Saffron early in March so we are looking forward to that event and spending a little more time at home. Lots of planned extensions to the house will keep me busy.

Next year we plan to sail to Sicily and points West of there and will probably over winter somewhere in Portugal.

To all our cruising friends "Stay Safe"

Tom and Nicolette