As well as running this website, the editor also runs his own yacht delivery business, www.yachtmovers.co.uk, which finds him currently departing from Croatia, attempting to take a Sun Odyssey 42DS, its owner and his crew, from Biograd to Monastir in Tunisia. This also means that updates to the website are likely to be delayed for a couple of weeks - please bear with us! At least Sailers is written and edited by a team who are on the water and know yachting from the inside!

Sailing off the Dalmation coast is excellent.  Apart from the occasional blow, winds are mostly on-shore breezes which die down completely at night, and only really get going late morning. But they aren't passage winds, so if you want to go somewhere, be prepared to motor a fair bit.  Which is what we planned.  With a conservatively estimated range of 200 nautical miles, we aimed for Brindisi, only once again things don't always go smoothly, and what may well be defective fuel injectors meant that a planned motoring range of 200 plus miles turned into one of only 80, with a switch of destination from Brindisi to Vieste at 7.00am this morning. The change involved an enforced slow beat across the Traffic Separation Scheme, and yet another delay.  We await the Yanmar expert tomorrow, as only 80 nautical miles on a full tank of diesel isn't acceptable.