Welcome

we will be keeping up with our liveaboard life on our Bristol 41.1 "As you Wish"

Back in the U.S of A

17 Days from Madeira...3 low pressure systems and 2 Gales later, we are Here. We "Arove" at 0730 Hrs on Monday August 13th. We are in Seal Harbor, Maine. we anchored in Bar Harbor for the first 2 nights back and cleaned a little salt off the boat, pulled out a few wet things and dried out. I have posted a new photo album of our return trip on the left

NEW PHOTOS

Well, I thought this would get you attention!........ That is actually a pigs foot sticking out of the garbage left on the dock in Valencia. Spaniards love their cured Ham. The new photo album to the left is what was taken on Tressa's Camera. This means that the pictures are of the evening shots and dinners out when i would leave my camera at home. We had a great time traveling together and we got to see some amazing things. Her first Sailing Regatta was the America's Cup, so that one might be tough to follow up back in Annapolis, but she really got into the competitive spirit of the event. She is back in Maryland now, and We are departing on Keewaydin from Split Croatia bound for Maine, USA. cheers

Travel To Croatia

Here we go. One week of our trip left and we have some great plans for Croatia. we will actually be trying to meet up with some friends that are coincidentally traveling via sailboat through the islands at the same time. We are looking forward to our stay in Dubrovnik, at the Hilton Imperial. This should be a nice location. We will post as much as possible

GAUDY

Well, literally this is what it is all about. "gaudy" in our English tongue meaning overly ornate comes from this man's handiwork. Antoni Goudi is Catalonia's most famous Architect, he has also got a very unique sense of style. Please open up the photo albums to the left with his name on it to see the pictures we took of the Sagrada Familia and one other building in the city. I attempted to capture not only the individual pieces that Litter the Facade, but the whole construction site that has been in constant work since its groundbreaking ceremony in 1884. The estimates for completion are around the year 2026. That is 100 years after the Architect's death. You can read more about him in the following link. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antoni_Gaud%C3%AD

Back in Barcelona

So, Back here in Barcelona for a few days to take in some of the Catalunyan city sites. We have been on foot and are very surprised at how accessible everything is. Our spanish was just getting good enough to confuse the valencians, now we are playing mute with the Catalunyans. The Spanish is different enough. This City is much cleaner than Valencia, and much busier. You will see some amazing pictures of the street troup of break-dancers. They performed for almost 10 minutes, and some of their acrobatics were truely amazing. Looking at this picture to the right you will see that he is fully off the ground and if you think about how he got to this position, it will truely boggle your mind. We have toured the Old City of the Gothic Neighborhood, seeing many churches. The city is a mix of very old and very new. Tressa has found some nice shopping and I found a barber.

Now the competition gets good!

A RACE OF EMOTIONS (June 26, 2007) This America’s Cup just keeps getting better, and more interesting. Tuesday's contest was a race of emotions for the 34 sailors on the two yachts. The lead changes were frequent and dramatic. This was one of the best races in the 156-year history of the America’s Cup. And we are a long, long way from deciding the winner. Both teams were at times brilliant, and at other times sloppy. In the 6.5 to 9.2 knot wind range, there was little speed difference, upwind or downwind, between these boats. The waves out on the race course were huge, confused and nasty. It was a tough day for the helmsman. At one point on the first windward leg Alinghi’s helmsman Ed Baird looked over his shoulder at Emirates Team New Zealand surging into a big lead and uttered (expletive deleted) and thrust his head down. He looked mighty frustrated. Not a good thing so early in a race that promised a lot of wind changes. Alinghi’s superstar tactician, Brad Butterworth, calmed Baird down and the team went to work. -- Gary Jobson, read on: http://www.sailingscuttlebutt.com/news/07/gj/#Race3