Friday, June 3 – Racisce Village

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Man Crew at work!


Isabella and Alistar relaxing


The girls using my camera

We arrived at a beautiful harbor with a small quay. No boats there so we took the quay broadside. Tonight we would feed the girls early and try to get them to bed at a reasonable time. We had some local teenagers singing on the quay and at first it was cute, but later the restaurant owner offered to shoo them away for us.


Both girls talking to their mommy’s. Michelle is demonstrating her new snapping her finger trick!


Isabella, Michelle and Charlie

Thursday – June 2 – Otok Mljet (Island Mljet)

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Okuklje di Otokmljet Cove (yes that is how it is spelled)


Local fishing boats

Thursday, June 2nd, we motored into Okuklje di Otokmljet, a small bay with several small moorings operated independent of each other. We were flagged in by one and it seems a nice location. We later found we had to have dinner at the adjoining restaurant in order to get free mooring. It was a late night for the girls and they were close to asleep even before their dinners arrived. The food was outstanding and served family style.


The girls at their first port, exploring the sea life


The girls working down below on their workbooks.

The next morning we allowed ourselves a lazy day and while the crew went to breakfast, Ken and I stayed and did some work on the boat. We shoved off at about 11:30 and Ken proceeded to give the girls some sailing lessons. They shared the job of pulling in the jib sheet, and grinding on the first tack. We sailed most of Thursday and when the girls got antsy, we went downstairs to start their notebooks. I had made some project books for them that had coloring projects, paper boat directions and various other things to keep them interested. I made chicken roll-ups for late lunch and then the girls took a nap for several hours. Sailing is HARD!

Dubrovnik – ACI Marina Dubrovnik

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After taking a taxi to meet our new crew, we had lunch in the walled city with the crew and then they followed us back to the boat. The girls were happy to have the v-berth as their new home and quickly made their fort! After they settled in, we spend several hours at the pool and had some dinner. Tomorrow, we will start to provision and prepare for our trip up the Croatian coast. Raouf, Alistair and I did some market shopping and used the markets trolley to bring all our :”loot” to the boat. Again, we got 3 bags of ice from three different restaurants that should help with keeping our food cold and ice down our drinks.