Entries by Kristine

San Tropez, France to Naples, Italy

After a winter of boat repair, a hull repaint and new racing headsails, the Grateful Red was ready for the sail back across the ocean to the Caribbean. The crew leaving San Tropez was Kristine’s childhood friend their Devils’ Lake days – Page, her husband Alan, Mike O’Connor who celebrating his new great job by […]

St. Tropez to Macinaggio

Our first real sail will be an overnight to Corsica. We finish our boat provisioning, fuel up the boat and depart around 4pm. Winds about 10 knots, we put up a reefed main and Genoa, but soon found the winds out of ;the Golfe to be blowing 20-25 from the West.