Savarna sailing blog

This blog records the travels of Savarna, a Hanse 531 yacht, following our taking delivery in June 2005 from the Hanse yard in Greifswald, on the Baltic. Having currently sailed as far as Turkey over the past four summers we are planning to head up to Istanbul, the Black Sea and then cruise the Cyclades Group during 2009, then complete the East Med Rally in April 2010 which will take us to Israel and Egypt followed by the ARC at the end of 2010 to get us to the Carribean then to New Zealand via the Panama and the Pacific.

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2010 Cruising about to start

Posted at 11:13 AM, Apr. 15, 2010

After several months of silence it is time to fire up the blog again.

It has been a good summer downunder but with autumn well on its way it is time to head back to the northern hemisphere and join Savarna at Kos in the Dodecanese islands of Greece. We will be back on board in a couple of weeks and are allowing a week to get ready to roll allowing for antifouling and provisioning etc before we head southwards to catch up with the East Med Rally that will have passed by Kos by the time we get back. So the plan is to depart Kos, sail via Symi and Rhodes to Fethiye where we will meet up with good friends Jo and Chris from Auckland who will join us for the rally. Current plan is to catch up with the rally while they are at anchor at Kekova Roads in Turkey.

The rally route takes in Turkey, Cyprus, Syria, Lebanon, Israel and Egypt and we will take us around 6 weeks. Two other NZ boats are entered along with three Australian boats and after that pretty much northern hemisphere with a big bunch of British and French boats entered – 71 boats in all. Going to be great fun and looking forward to it. The picture below is taken from the rally site www.emyr.org if anyone wants more information on this event.

Cheers for now

Keith

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