Mersoleil

Mersoleil is a 2010 Hylas cutter rigged monohull, an H46, built in Taiwan by Queen Long Marine. A bluewater cruiser through and through, she has carried Robbie and Bev more than 50,000nm around the world from 2011 to 2020. Mersoleil will be interviewing new owners in Ft. Lauderdale by spring 2020.

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Posted: Sun, 27 Oct 2019 - 19:00

Have you noticed? It's time for me to admit that things are moving so quickly I never seem to find time to post updates to YIT anymore. I haven't finished telling about Greece and have not even

Posted: Fri, 6 Sep 2019 - 18:19

Greece... different from anyplace we have ever been. I've probably said this before, more than once, but it's true. The diversity in the world is marvelous. We've already discussed the plethora of

Posted: Sun, 11 Aug 2019 - 13:23

In FIskardho on Tuesday morning, the day after tomorrow, we'll meet Mario Lewis, our guest for the next week or so. In order to be there and settled before he arrives, we motored from Vathi, Ithaka

Posted: Wed, 7 Aug 2019 - 14:37

We had another conversation about guns this morning over coffee and agree that America needs to simply outlaw the private ownership of guns, period. I still have concerns, having grown up in the

Posted: Fri, 2 Aug 2019 - 20:00

Greece is everything we hoped it would be and more, which comes as a delightful surprise after all the complaining we've heard about sailing in the Med, especially in Greece. Conceded, charter

Posted: Tue, 16 Jul 2019 - 20:24

At least once before I've awakened in the morning to find Robbie in bed with me and panicked, "What are you DOING here!?" This morning I woke just before 8:00, saw him next to me and remembered

Posted: Sun, 14 Jul 2019 - 09:12

Nothing quite so exciting as the micro burst has occurred over the past few days. We've luxuriated in warm sunny days, dry nights (for the most part) and low to modest breezes pushing us along

Posted: Tue, 9 Jul 2019 - 01:18

Pasagemaking is full of surprises. However well prepared one might be, some new and unexpected lesson or experience invaribaly presents itself for our problem solving enjoyment. I'll tell you about

Posted: Fri, 5 Jul 2019 - 03:57

Regular readers of these pages will recognize it, but we had never even heard the cruisers' cliche before we proved its validity in 2011 - cruisers' plans are indeed written in sand at low tide. It

Posted: Tue, 2 Jul 2019 - 07:06

Morocco. We're still pinching ourselves! It's every bit as charming and as magic as we hoped it would be and, with that, our every preconception has been dashed and we found ourselves thoroughly

Posted: Mon, 17 Jun 2019 - 14:15

But wait! What about Casablanca? More famous from the movie than for its contributions to Moroccan life and culture, Casablanca IS Morocco's largest city and the hub of business and commercial

Posted: Sun, 16 Jun 2019 - 16:17

Marrakesh Continued June 16-17 2019 Cuisines of the various countries we visit fascinate us both. I love to cook, Robbie and I both favour piquant and exciting flavours and we're game for trying

Posted: Sat, 15 Jun 2019 - 14:16

Three Days in Marrakesh - June 15-17 Does it get any more exotic? Not for us! On our last night in Fes, Tahar said, "What do you want to do tomorrow? We can leave early and drive through the

Posted: Wed, 12 Jun 2019 - 19:39

Greetings from Fes, Morocco. June 12th-14th. As near as we have been able to gather Fez is the district in which the city of Fes is located. One of them is also a hat and remember, these letters

Posted: Tue, 11 Jun 2019 - 16:27

It's hard to believe we squeezed more into the first day of our Morocco tour, but Moroccan highways are excellent and it's only 95 miles from Rabat to Meknes. Charming local guide, Atimade, an

Posted: Tue, 11 Jun 2019 - 15:06

If we've learned anything in Morocco, it's that there is much to see, to experience, to absorb, and this cannot be accomplished in seven days. But we did what we could in a long week, taking

Posted: Wed, 5 Jun 2019 - 14:08

Peter Streit left Las Canarias a few weeks before we did, stopped in Rabat, and gave us the skinny on Bouregreg Marina before we arrived here. "I met this great guy named Noureddine," he informed us

Posted: Tue, 4 Jun 2019 - 12:39

Ramadan Breakfast in Rabat, the breaking of the fast First on the agenda after checking in to a new country is to lay our hands on some local currency and SIM cards, necessary more for data than

Posted: Mon, 3 Jun 2019 - 14:23

Conditions were just about perfect for the 500nm passage from Arrecife to Rabat. Trade winds normally blow strong and constant from the NE at this time of year and NE is, of course, exactly the

Posted: Mon, 27 May 2019 - 21:54

Greetings from Arrecife, Lanzarote, Las Canarias, Spain We don't exactly understand why we like Lanzarote so much better than Gran Canaria. Others, we understand, feel the opposite. But we've been

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