Photo: Corsica. I have arrived after an epic 36 hour haul on the motor today but a good 4 hours on spinaker yesterday. What a forgiving boat that can let you play spinnaker single handed mind you the wind was very light.
Photo: Corsica. 
Photo: Girolata. Passing the La Scandola nature reserve ending the day in Girolata @€23 a night. This is my third night in Corsica and the first at a marina well on a bouy anyway. Sent from Samsung tablet
Photo: Girolata. 
Photo: Girolata. 
Photo: Girolata. 
Photo: Golfe de Porto. 
Photo: Corsica more pictures. 
Photo: Corsica more pictures. 
Photo: Sagone. 
Photo: Sagone. 
Photo: Sagone. 
Photo: Sagone. 
Photo: Extreme victualling. I have seen tee-shirts acheive greater tasks of containment but with a flat tyre the back of the bike was all over the place.
Photo: Extreme victualling. I have seen tee-shirts acheive greater tasks of containment but with a flat tyre the back of the bike was all over the place.
Photo: Solar flapjacks. These didn’t work I can get 70degrees but need 200. I think it is possible andI would love to. I think I need a small mat black k-glass box or similar?
Photo: Solar flapjacks. 
Photo: Solar flapjacks. 
Photo: My favourite picture. Look carefully between the boats
Photo: Fire fighting. Treated to an arial display of fire fighting planes collecting water.
Photo: 35mm camera. This is the best pick of 48 pictures from my old film camera. There is something I like in these pictures perhaps it is specific focus that could be achieved with a more expensive camera. Hopefully I will get that one picture during the trip which I am happy to hang on my wall.
Photo: 35mm camera. 
Photo: 35mm camera. 
Photo: Iles Sanguinaires. I balked at sailing between these islands and pulled down the foresail and motored when leeway was drifting me too close to the rocks. I have a healthy respect for ‘blood thirsty’ islands.
Photo: Iles Sanguinaires. 
Photo: Boats Ajaccio. There was a variety of boats at Ajaccio alot of the big ones filling up with stuff some nice ones but not as many as were in Marseille. There were also some little traditional fishing boats. She isn’t sitting on the dog. Note the pulley system on the backstay I have a document that suggests doing this on a 3/4 rig atalanta as a way of flattening off the sail and spilling the top. Depowering it.
Photo: Boats Ajaccio. 
Photo: Boats Ajaccio. 
Photo: Boats Ajaccio. 
Photo: Boats Ajaccio. 
Photo: Boats Ajaccio. 
Photo: Ile Piana to Propriano. The first photo is of ile Piana where I lost the tip of my finger. Looking at that picture I can understand the haste in which I wanted to get in for a swim. Mary spent two nights here on anchor by herself. The boat in front is the one that organised the ambulance and rushed me off to meet it. Also washing the wound etc whilst I went the faint period. It took 3 mooring spots before I was given this one to wait out the Mistral. 
Photo: Ile Piana to Propriano. 
Photo: Ile Piana to Propriano. 
Photo: Ile Piana to Propriano. 
Photo: Leaving Propriana. Early morning outside campamoro heading for Sardinia
Photo: Isola Rossa, Sardinia. Met up with Alan at Isola Rossa. The colours are really that bright.
Photo: Isola Rossa, Sardinia. 
Photo: Isola Asinara. 
Photo: Isola Asinara. 
Photo: Isola Asinara. 
Photo: Isola Asinara. 
Photo: Isola Asinara. 
Photo: A17 Gambol 2013 Wheel Addition Ref Richard Hall A184. If you raise your mast your self and don’t have a wheel in place to push the mast aft as suggested by Richard Hall then I strongly suggest you make one. I Wish I had done it the first time I saw it – it was on the to do list…………..!! Very highly recommended.
Ahhhh yes, it’s becoming clearer now. My boat was was converted to a fixed point reeling system with lazy jacks so that the sail does not roll around the boom like yours. Still, you have cleared up a number of things for me, for which many thanks, also my earlier suspicion that my own arrangement needs substantially stronger fitting, albeit the claw ring is probably not appropriate.
Many thanks for that – sorry to keep asking questions but does the clamping sheet pulley replace that boom mechanism in your photo or simply the main sheet jammer? Also, are these things readily available or only from specialists Many thanks Fairey Mary, really enjoyed your photos
It is part of the boom reefing it is galvanised steel with two tuffnal wheels that hold the boom. It is the point of annoyance when hoisting the main, if the sail catches under a wheel. It also bites into the boom leaving a compressed track around the boom. But it does keep the main tidy. Since this photo was taken I have bought a clamping sheet pulley. The cleat was a bit dangerous in gusty weather.
Great photos – what a trip. I notice the boom arrangement for the main sheet in this photo. My boat, JOHARA just has a stainless steel fitting screwed onto the boom, it’s never looked strong enough to me, it’s what I remember seeing on my dinghy and this photo shows me what I should have. Where one can buy such things and what are they called?
On our Atalanta we set up a car with wheels on each leg of the split part of the backstay, the wheels are joined in the middle by a ring. Put a Harken cam cleat on either side of the aft hatch. Ran a line from one cam cleat, back to a small block on the aft deck, up to a block on the ring joining the wheels, down to another block on the other side of the deck then forward to the other cam cleat. Easy to adjust and right there at the helm. You can pull on it and watch the leech open up, works a treat. I have a couple of photos with the arrangement in the background from when we took her to Bermuda in 1996. The shots are scans of prints so not the best clarity but we have a better scanner now so might be able to look through some shots and get a better one if you like.
Hope the finger is healing well with no infection.
Best regards, Dave and Michelle
There are a few of those here but I am usually keen on a swim or a bucket wash, thanks for the offer. They would work in the uk though.
Now you have something in common with Sir Francis Chichester, I believe he lost the tip of a finger while hooking onto a freighter’s boom to hoist Gipsy Moth. The photos look great.