We had some great adventures in Peniche Portugal. Its coordinates: 39°21′N 9°22′W make Peniche the most western city of continental...

7:00am departure from Porto on April 5th and we were dockside in Fig da Foz eleven hours later after sailing 60+ nautical miles. We had...

Nazaré [naz-ar-ee], Portugal - April 7-10/22 We spent a few days exploring the popular seaside town. Nazaré used to be a beach resort...

Porto Portugal – April 1 – 5 Wow. What a vibrant city. We have not seen so many people out and about since La Rochelle France. We...

Our final port of call in Spain was Vigo. Another vibrant & lively city on the Western coast of the Atlantic Europe. March 29-31 A 52...

March 27th we had a four hour sail, in good winds, to arrive mid afternoon. We were on anchor by 1600hrs and thirty minutes later the...

Cape Finisterre is a rock-bound peninsula on the west coast of Galicia, Spain. The name Finisterre, like that of Finistère in France,...

Getting here was an all downwind ride with good winds and boat speeds in the 8-9 knots range. Many times we were sailing faster than our...

March 21st we are now out of the Bay of Biscay and in the Eastern Atlantic following our day sail from Cedeira to A Coruña where we spent...

Cedeira is a municipality in the province of A Coruna in the autonomous community of Galicia in northwestern Spain. It is situated in the...

The fifth port of call on our journey is the town of Viveiro Spain. Viveiro is an ancient walled town with a medieval bridge over the...

Cruising further West along the Northern Spanish coast of the Bay of Biscay. The winds were light so we only had a short window to sail...

Saturday March 12th was a travel day - sailing from Santander to Gijon Spain. About a 100 nautical mile trek, Even though we did a lot...

March 9th we sailed from Bilbao to Santander Spain. It was a breezy day and a couple gusts hit 32 knots. With apparent winds in the...

Let the adventures of Sailing 45North begin. After four weeks working on preparing for our journey and getting several after market...

Friday Feb 25 we headed out on the Bay of Biscay to practice sailing with the Code-D spinnaker. Winds were about 8kts true which made...

Representing the Latitude of Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada being at 45 degrees North and 66 degrees West. Ok all you Haligonian boaters;...

Week 1 - February 3 - 11, 2011 (temps have been between 10-14c and mostly sunny) After nearly two and a half years we are finally on our...

Having our boat built and customized was quite a learning experience to say the least. From picking out the colors of the fabrics to the...

We are 3 weeks from flying over to meet up with our new boat on Feb 3rd, 2022 and have been watching many other cruisers do the journey...