39 51.8 N 004.08.7 E Cala Coves, Menorca, Tuesday 14th SeptemberSter Wenn as a necropolis - Another week, another circumnavigation..... of Menorca. Sunday, and we didn't get very far as we watched more of the triathlon than we meant to - it was hot for the poor competitors. Started our clockwise "circumnavigation" of the island, looking in on Addaia (a lot of people like it, there seemed to be a lot of British boats there, up a narrow channel, not much space ...

40 05.9 N 004 03.7 E Cala Fornells, Menorca, Saturday 11th SeptemberMissed a day somehow. A blowy night Thursday and all day Friday confined us to the boat and everyone to the Cala. Dinghy ashore would have been a wet affair and the breaking seas at the entrance a bit of a problem for anyone. Today we filled up with water (4 euros on the town quay) and diesel and then went to Ciutadella by bus. Great going through the middle of the island, changing at a pl...

40 95.9 N 004 03.7 E Cala Fornells, Menorca, Thursday 9th SeptemberWell that was a good one! We had a fast and furious sail from Pollenca to Menorca. Again, forecasts less than reliable, what should have been a F4-5 was a steady F6 gusting F7. A beam reach though so just tanking. The sea state here does seem to chop up quickly. We were heading for Ciutadella, previous old capital of Menorca before Mahon (or Mao in local speak). It did say in the pilot boo...

40 03.0 N 003 55.3 E Port de Pollenca, Mallorca, Monday 6th SeptemberI am fated not to see these caves with underground lakes and spectacular stalagmites. We left Porto Colom and went back up to Porto Cristo (sorry Clive & Jane, we didn't get to Cala Llonga and Cala d'Or). The entrance to Cristo was fine this time, but it is a tiny anchorage, there were 3 boats there already plus one American one that took up another 3 spaces by angling himself sideways wi...

39 25.3 N 003 15.9 E Porto Colom, Friday 3rd SeptemberThursday - well, plans a bit adrift. Again winds all over the place and not quite as expected. Made our way south, sailing some, motorsailing a lot (good test of the next filter having given the fuel one mega treatment so far), no matter what direction we went, wind on nose. Except approaching Porto Christo it was easterly, the entrance is narrow and faces east, but reputedly sheltered inside. However we g...