Season One — Adriatic to the Balearics
The journey, so far.
Every region gets a few lines, not a blog. The dots and the videos carry the story — this page is just the wake the boat leaves behind.
55
days at sea
≈1,710
nautical miles
7
countries
62
dots on the map
9
bottles of pálinka gifted to harbourmasters
Days 1–13 · Marina Kaštela → Durrës · ≈238 nm
Adriatic
It starts the only way it could: a Croatian marina, a long checklist, and a short goodbye. Then south through the islands — Šolta, Hvar, Vis, Korčula — the kind of sailing that makes you suspicious it can't all be like this. (It can't.) Montenegro delivers the Bay of Kotor, Albania delivers the first overnight passage, and suddenly the log has pages in it.
Days 14–20 · Sarandë → Lefkada Marina · ≈82 nm
Ionian
Greece arrives gently. Corfu, Paxos, the channel down to Lefkada — short hops, warm evenings, and the slow realisation that nobody on this boat is in a hurry anymore. The marina at Lefkada gets the boat for a week; Budapest gets the skipper.
Days 21–27 · 17 Sep 2026 – 23 Sep 2026
A week at home
The boat stays in Lefkada. Tamas flies to Budapest for a week of family, friends, and lángos. No line on the map — flying home isn't sailing, and this log doesn't pretend otherwise.
Days 28–36 · Lefkada Marina → Underway — Ionian Sea · ≈366 nm
Ionian — continued
Back aboard, and the Ionian saves its best for the second act: Fiskardo's harbour lights, Ithaca because you can't sail past Ithaca, then the long staging run down to Methoni to wait on weather. The crossing to Malta is two days of open water — the first real test, passed quietly.
Days 37–52 · Valletta → Favignana · ≈322 nm
Malta & Sicily
Landfall under Valletta's walls is the postcard moment of the season. Then Sicily, taken anticlockwise like a long tasting menu: Marzamemi, Syracuse, Etna smoking over Catania, the Strait of Messina done with the current (by design, not luck), the Aeolians, Cefalù, Palermo. By Favignana the boat is pointing west and everyone knows it.
Days 53–62 · Underway — Strait of Sicily → Palma de Mallorca · ≈413 nm
Western Mediterranean
Two more open-water legs — Sardinia first, then the long jump to Menorca. Mahón's harbour swallows the boat whole; Mallorca rounds out the season. Palma, late October: season one closed, the log full of dots, and the Atlantic politely told to wait until spring.
62 days down. About 3,590 to go.
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