Statistics (as of Nov 20th, 2022):
Nautical miles sailed: 30,000
Longitude sailed so far: 112 degrees – we covered 31% of the world 🙂
Most eastern point: Naxos, Greece, Sep 2017 – Lon: 25.37.2653
Most western point: El Cid Marina, Mexico, February 2022 – Lon: W 86.53.4
Sailing as % of total nautical miles sailing/motoring: 69%
2022 The new year found us isolating in Marathon FL (Glen had Covid) and we made it to Mexico mid-January. Spent a month there, a month in Bay Islands, Honduras, then the last 2 weeks of the crusing season docked in Havana and visiting Cuba by car. Late spring we sailed back to the Chesapeake for the usual “Cloudy Bay summer storage” while we returned to Europe. The highlight of the summer was a month-long motorcycle tour of Europe. October saw us flying back to CB, undergoing yet more boat maintenance, and sailing will resume late November towards Columbia.
2022 cruising route: s/v Cloudy Bay – Florida, Mexico, Honduras, Cuba, HHN
2021 We were landlock in Bucharest most of the year, while Cloudy Bay rested in her storage in USA. Glen couldn’t keep away and visited her in the spring for 8 weeks of boat maintenance. We had a great summer in Europe, did 2 scooter tours to Greece and to France. Then at the end of September we returned to Cloudy Bay for another 8 weeks of boat maintenance (which concluded the Covid induced refit), and finally resumed sailing at the end of November, down the East Coast to Florida Keys.
2021 cruising route: s/v Cloudy Bay – USA, Florida Keys
2020 started in the Bahamas where we had an amazing time, and we planed to be in Panama by April (after cruising Cuba, Cayman and Jamaica), then off towards Galapagos and westwards to Marquesas. But the Covid pandemics changed our plans. We did manage to visit Jamaica in March, then we got stuck (lock-down) in Grand Cayman for two months, and at the end of May we finally managed to return to the USA where we hauled out leaving Cloudy Bay in her usual home while we flied back to Romania for the foreseeable future. Cruising plans to resume October 2021 at the earliest (travel restrictions permitting).
2020 cruising plan: sv Cloudy Bay – Bahamas, Cuba, Cayman,Jamaica, Panama and into the Pacific
2020 cruising route: s/v Cloudy Bay – Bahamas, Jamaica, Grand Cayman, USA
2019 finds us back in the Caribbean (St. Kitts & Nevis), from where we continue sailing westwards towards Central America. But we only made it from Antigua to Dominican Republic. Late May we reluctantly left the Dom Rep towards the USA, via Bahamas. For the hurricane season Cloudy Bay was hauled-out in Herrington Harbour North MD, while we traveled back to Europe for 4 months. Returned to Cloudy Bay mid-October for six weeks of intensive boat maintenance, then resumed sailing at the end of November, down to Florida. Last day of the year we finally made it to Bahamas.
2019 cruising route: sv Cloudy Bay – Caribbean (St Kitts & Nevis to Bahamas), haul out for the summer and back down to Bahamas.
2018 was the start of the big adventure! We crossed the Atlantic in January (Lanzarote to Barbados, see articles under Atlantic Crossing archives). February-May we cruised the windward Caribbean islands, Grenada to Martinique, and some of the leeward islands, Dominica to Antigua & Barbuda. In June we started the cruising up the eastern coast of US from Florida to Maine and then back down to Chesapeake Bay (see articles under Americas archives, by islands or by states within USA). Mid-November 2018 we left the USA from Norfolk VA and returned to Caribbean via Bermuda for another season, starting in Antigua where we left off.
Cruising route 2018: s/v Cloudy Bay – Atlantic crossing, Caribbean, east coast USA
2017 cruising route was mostly in Greece (Ionian, Corinth Canal, Evia, Sporades & Cyclades), welcoming brave visitors. It was also a good time to test all the new systems that were installed during the refit in Feb-Apr, see article “Refit Project & Boat Maintenance-Almerimar“. October found us in Lanzarote, preparing for the transatlantic passage, and in November back home to Bucharest & London.
2017 cruising route: s/v Cloudy Bay, Gibraltar-Greece-Lanzarote
2016 cruising route was in the Western Mediterranean. We spent June in Gibraltar, July on Costa del Sol, August on Costa Blanca, and September in the Balearics. We have focused on “learning” the boat (read manuals too), and we got used with all her systems. Our sailing season ended in late October, and winter found us in Bucharest.
2016 cruising route: s/v Cloudy Bay, Western Med
If you want to follow our movements, please see page “Where is Cloudy Bay?“