Thursday 20 August

 

Claudine has departed today, Caroline has arrived today, Malc and Wendy depart on Saturday, John and Hal arrive Saturday, Mary departs Sunday - phew!  So at the moment we are the '60 somethings' (nearly)!

We have just crossed from Tsunami (airport) to Hvar (25 miles) and are anchored in the small creek with the private house at the head (the '30 somethings' favourite), just for the night before returning to the airport for Saturday.

 

I will leave the crew to recount the events of the last few days since leaving Vis.

 

No consideration has been given to the advancing years of the crew, as you can see from the picture, even the girls have been pressed into service, and that after their vigorous work out, as pictured in the last blog. However there has been some relaxation a few lucky ones! !The decks have been scrubbed, the hull washed down and unmentionable activities in the heads so we hope be allowed the few moments of relaxation before we go! 

The weather has been great, although we have not always had wind from the right direction when sailing, but some days everything as fallen into place and we have had some great sails. 

Last night we moored in Split town and despite our initial trepidations it turned out to be a wonderful place and Brian came up trumps and took us to an amazing Restaurant where we all had the fantastic Fish Platter.  Having waved goodbye to Claudine, we have now welcomed Caroline to the "crew" and trust she will have as much fun as we have and enjoy her trip back to home waters.

 

Today we sailed partly by sail and partly motoring from Split to a delightful anchorage to the north west of the island of Hvar. The vegetation is slightly different here with more trees and smoother rocks which made tying up the stern lines easier for Malc and Neil.  We have missed Claudine and toasted her at dinner.  Caroline is proving to be a willing and able crew. After a cooling swim    we have just enjoyed a lovely meal cooked by Wendy with meat of unknown origin which took much talent and imagination to produce

 

Brian and the nearly '60 somethings'