Hurricane
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This year we changed the plan.
Instead of heading over to the islands during July and August as usual, we decided to stay in Sant Carles for the summer.
Just as well because it was hot hot hot.
I remember being in 45 degrees with forecasts of 48 degrees.
The swimming pool in Sant Carles worked overtime.
A few of us guys even joined in the Aqua Aerobics in the pool.
I won't mention their names but even a few who post on this forum found their way to the Aqua Aerobics in the pool on some mornings!!
We had a busy early part of the year.
JW is 10 years old now and there were a few big jobs that needed doing to keep her in good condition.
Having done all the work, we rewarded ourselves with a quick dash across to Mallorca and Ibiza during the first week in June.
This video is a reminder of that trip - posted earlier this year.
But just one weeks cruise isn't enough for me.
I always like to do longer trips if possible.
So, after enjoying the summer months in Sant Carles, I planned a more adventurous trip.
We have often done two of the islands but never done all three in a single cruise.
The weather had to be good to us.
Menorca is always difficult because it is in "line of fire" of the Mistrals which "fan out" from the Gulf of Lions.
So, I was really pleased to see the long range forecast showing the Menorcan coast "doable".
In the end, not only did we manage to get to all three islands but we also managed to do the return leg via Denia and Valencia.
Well, actually, we were beaten by the weather which forced us that way.
Whilst we were in Denia, Mallorca was being "beaten up" by torrential rain and the north coast of Menorca was experiencing 6m swells.
All places that we had been to during the previous couple of weeks.
I'm sure he won't mind me saying - djefabs on this forum has cruised a lot on Jennywren and I was really pleased when he accepted my offer to join us this year. He has done lots of long distance trips with us but not really relaxed on our of our anchoring cruises.
So, with him and a yachtie friend, we set off in the middle of September - just the three of us - A BOYS ONLY TRIP.
Well partially, anyway - the ladies would join is out there - flying into Palma later in September.
And to top it all, the weather was so good that we could leave early and do "our own thing" ---- until the girls arrived.
As my yachtie friend put it "we went feral" !!
During our cruise, I posted a number of "where am I" threads and promised to write up one of my cruise reports.
But instead of the usual Hurricane report, this time, I have made a full video that documents the full cruise in pictures/videos.
I made the video so that people who don't know the cruising area will understand the location of all the places.
At each anchorage, the video switches to OpenCPN showing the ships track and then zooms into the location of that specific anchorage.
Two apologies
Firstly, I apologise for the length of the video - over 8 mins long - but the actual clips are quite short - there are just rather a lot of them!!
Secondly, I couldn't upload it in full resolution - it is on Vimeo and I only have the free account.
The video has lots of drone clips - some good some not so good.
I've really got into the free open source KDEnLive editor. In the past, I've used a lot of video editors - Adobe Premier was the best but IMO KDEnLive is better and runs on all platforms.
Anyway, here's the link to Our Late Season Cruise (click image or the link below the image).
https://vimeo.com/299294736
I hope you enjoy it as much as I have on the cruise and in the making of the video
Instead of heading over to the islands during July and August as usual, we decided to stay in Sant Carles for the summer.
Just as well because it was hot hot hot.
I remember being in 45 degrees with forecasts of 48 degrees.
The swimming pool in Sant Carles worked overtime.
A few of us guys even joined in the Aqua Aerobics in the pool.
I won't mention their names but even a few who post on this forum found their way to the Aqua Aerobics in the pool on some mornings!!
We had a busy early part of the year.
JW is 10 years old now and there were a few big jobs that needed doing to keep her in good condition.
Having done all the work, we rewarded ourselves with a quick dash across to Mallorca and Ibiza during the first week in June.
This video is a reminder of that trip - posted earlier this year.
But just one weeks cruise isn't enough for me.
I always like to do longer trips if possible.
So, after enjoying the summer months in Sant Carles, I planned a more adventurous trip.
We have often done two of the islands but never done all three in a single cruise.
The weather had to be good to us.
Menorca is always difficult because it is in "line of fire" of the Mistrals which "fan out" from the Gulf of Lions.
So, I was really pleased to see the long range forecast showing the Menorcan coast "doable".
In the end, not only did we manage to get to all three islands but we also managed to do the return leg via Denia and Valencia.
Well, actually, we were beaten by the weather which forced us that way.
Whilst we were in Denia, Mallorca was being "beaten up" by torrential rain and the north coast of Menorca was experiencing 6m swells.
All places that we had been to during the previous couple of weeks.
I'm sure he won't mind me saying - djefabs on this forum has cruised a lot on Jennywren and I was really pleased when he accepted my offer to join us this year. He has done lots of long distance trips with us but not really relaxed on our of our anchoring cruises.
So, with him and a yachtie friend, we set off in the middle of September - just the three of us - A BOYS ONLY TRIP.
Well partially, anyway - the ladies would join is out there - flying into Palma later in September.
And to top it all, the weather was so good that we could leave early and do "our own thing" ---- until the girls arrived.
As my yachtie friend put it "we went feral" !!
During our cruise, I posted a number of "where am I" threads and promised to write up one of my cruise reports.
But instead of the usual Hurricane report, this time, I have made a full video that documents the full cruise in pictures/videos.
I made the video so that people who don't know the cruising area will understand the location of all the places.
At each anchorage, the video switches to OpenCPN showing the ships track and then zooms into the location of that specific anchorage.
Two apologies
Firstly, I apologise for the length of the video - over 8 mins long - but the actual clips are quite short - there are just rather a lot of them!!
Secondly, I couldn't upload it in full resolution - it is on Vimeo and I only have the free account.
The video has lots of drone clips - some good some not so good.
I've really got into the free open source KDEnLive editor. In the past, I've used a lot of video editors - Adobe Premier was the best but IMO KDEnLive is better and runs on all platforms.
Anyway, here's the link to Our Late Season Cruise (click image or the link below the image).
https://vimeo.com/299294736
I hope you enjoy it as much as I have on the cruise and in the making of the video
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