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Bunkside Thrillers



When the sea becomes a global terrorist weapon

 



Suspense and Visceral Action in Tunisia and Southern Europe

 



Suspense and Action in Crete, the Ionian and Malta

 



Red Sea Piracy and nautical adventure!

...the action is fast paced, hard, gritty and realistic. A lover of the genre
couldn’t ask for more or better.

- Novelist Lee Holz

Full review 

 

Essential Companion

  There are lies, damned lies and statistics.......Anon

 


THE ADVENTURES OF BLUE HOUND

  This is an assortment of memories, many pictorial, from the travels of Blue
Hound, including:

 

Ireland, France, Spain, Portugal, The Canary Islands, Cape Verde Islands, Brazil
and the Azores (x4), North Africa, Malta, Greece, Cuba, Dominica and more,
together with a collection of resources useful for sailors 

 

The sunset picture was taken from Blue Hound, anchored in the Canal de Itaparica
in near Salvador in Brazil. Completely magical!

 

 

Blue Hound is a staysail schooner, built by Chantiers des Ardennes in Marseilles
in 1981, in steel.

 

LOA 15.1m, with a beam of 4.60m and a draught of 2.84m.  Sail area approximately
1200 square feet. Displacement 26 tons loaded.

 

Originally built as a training vessel for the French Navy, she has a long and
chequered history.






 


2019 - 2022

The world has changed. We completed the Pacific crossing to Bundaberg, Australia
via Pitcairn Island (almost), the Gambier and Austral Islands, Tahiti, Bora Bora
and Tonga. Then we sailed down the Australian coast to Eden and across the
Tasman Sea to Nelson, New Zealand and on to Picton and Covid lockdown. That led
to 2 years in NZ (mainly in the Bay of Islands) and another crossing of the
Tasman in 2022 from Opua to Bundaberg.



The two crossings of the Tasman were tough with 3 gales in the first and a storm
in the second.


In August 2022 that was followed by 2,200 miles mostly of day sailing up through
the Great Barrier Reef and 'Across the Top' which led us to Darwin in 7 weeks.
We spent a month there cooking in a very uncomfortable climate before heading up
to Saumlaki in Indonesia. It's all in the blog referenced below in the 2019
Trans Pacific paragraph.







 


2019 - TRANS PACIFIC

 

 We plan to transit the Panama Canal in early February. If things go according
to plan, there will be blog entries here at our blog (click);  Also, our latest
position should be shown below:

 

 


2017/18 - ATLANTIC & CARIBBEAN

 



 


OUR NEW HYDROVANE IN ACTION - 3000 MLS NO PROBLEM

We had a fishing net around the main rudder for 1173 miles, but the hydrovane's
independent rudder served us well, until the net fell off during a gybe. The
seas were too big to allow us safely to cut the net off.

 

 


2016 - A BUSY YEAR

Still getting the miles in with 2,722 miles logged and several new experiences
plus a grand tour of the Canary Islands - except el Hierro (we'll get there some
day)!

 



 

 * Azores
 * pampero
 * Brittany
 * Spain
 * Schooner
 * havenplace
 * Canary Islands
 * azores
 * brazil
 * Dream
 * huge waves
 * cape verde islands

 



 

 


 








 

 
 
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