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ITINERARY
2000
June - September: Atlantic Crossing from Norfolk, Virginia via Bermuda and The Azores. A month cruising the Azorean Islands before our European landfall in Lisbon, Portugal. Coastal cruising through Gibraltar and into the Mediterranean. We left DOVKA for the winter, in Benelmadena, Costa del Sol, Spain.
2001
April - September: Cruising along the Spanish coast to The Balearic
Islands - Formentera, Ibiza, Majorca and Minorca. Two night passage to Sardinia;
up to Corsica; back to Sardinia, overnight passage to Tunisia; overnight passage
to Sicily; cruising along the north coast; Lipari (Aeolian) Islands; west
coast of Italy; Capri, Ventotene Islands and storage ashore for the winter
in Gaeta, Italy, halfway between Rome and Naples.
2002
April - May: Sailing down the coast of Italy to Sicily; two night
passage to cruise the Ionian Islands - landfall Zykinthos, then Lefkas, Ithaca,
Kefallonia, and Meganisi . Passage through the Gulf of Corinth and the Corinth
Canal to the Saronic Sea on to Cape Sounion and the Northern Cyclades.
June - July: Cruising
the Cyclades and the Dodeconese : Kithnos, Syros, Paros, Skhinousa, Amorgas,
Levitha, Patmos, Arki, Samos, Leros, Kos and Simi.
August - October:
Sailing along the Southwest corner of Turkey from the Datca Peninsula to Marmaris,
Gocek Bay, Kalkan, Kas and Kekova Roads. Made our base Marmaris and explored
west and east from there.
2003
May - October: Another season
in Turkey with our base still in Marmaris enabling us to more fully explore
the Aegean Turkish Coast from Kusadasi to Marmaris and east. This is a coast
of peninsulas, large gulfs and many beautiful anchorages . The season was
punctuated by a brief trip home in late June, followed by a month of visiting
friends in western Europe.
2004
May - June: Farewell to Turkey, afer spending the month of May visiting favorite anchorages. Early June, traversing Greece, including the Aegean, Gulf of Corinth and the Ionian Islands to Corfu.
July - September:
Across
the Adriatic, from Corfu to Brindisi, Italy (to avoid the Albanian coast)
and then back to Dubrovnik. July and half of August, cruising up the Dalmatian
coast of Croatia with its thousands of islands to the Slovenian border. Late
August and September, again crisscrossing the Adriatic with stops in Venice
& Monfalcone in Italy, back to Croatia and Piran,Slovenia. Overland travel
to Tuscany, Slovenia
and Trieste.
2005
May - September:
Another season spent along the Croatian coast, getting to know the islands
and mainland in greater depth than in 2004.
The season began and ended in Monfalcone,
Italy and included stops in Slovenia enroute to and from Croatia.
2006
May - July: Another winter ashore in Monfalcone Italy. In early May we set off with our friend Fil, and son Jon and his classmate Josh to Venice and then on to the Croatian coast to visit our favorite anchorages before the crowds of charter boats arrived. From Vis, we jumped across the Adriatic to Brindisi, Italy and then back across to Corfu, Greece. We then flew home for ten days to attend Jon's graduation from medical school. After returning to DOVKA we sailed again through the Corinth canal and north to the lovely Sporades Islands and the Khalkidiki region of northern Greece. The cruising season ended with a BANG when we suffered a head-on collision while touring ashore.
September: Three months after the collision, Sid was sufficiently recovered to move DOVKA, with the help of two friends, to Ayvalik, Turkey for the winter.
2007
May - September:
Sailed from Ayvalik, along the Turkish Aegean coast to Marmaris where much
of the season was occupied with replacing DOVKA's teak deck. The remainder
of the time was occupied with cruising locally in the Marmaris
region.