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Ahoy, Mateys!
Hi! We’re Phillip and Luana and we live aboard our 30-something year old sailing yacht, Nightshade. We’re fixing her up and getting her ready to head out into the deep blue one day. In the meantime we’ll potter around the turquoise waters of the Mediterranean, learning the lines and making our floating home our version…
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Temporary Residence in Croatia for Yachties
Updated October 2024 We often get asked about the process of gaining temporary residence here in Croatia. Post-Brexit, many Brits aren’t able to spend the whole of summer sailing in European waters anymore. 3 months of Schengen time is generous, but it’s not quite enough if you’ve got your own place (per se, in this…
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Blog Tweaks
I’ve been busy moving the blog to another server – as all you bloggers out there know, it’s a schlep but I wanted to do it now while there are only a few posts (lazy blogger 🤚). I’ve updated the info on our Contact Us page too, so check it out for links to our…
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Topsy-turvy 2022
Hello again! Wow it’s been a weird year, hasn’t it? I honestly have not had the spare emotional energy to get on top of updating our social media outlets. But we’re alive and kicking, and, in such tumultuous times, that’s nothing to be sneezed at. Hoping you are all well, healthy and safe, wherever you…
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Boat Work
While we’ve been wintering here in Croatia we’ve been thinking about the boat work we still need to do. Not a lot of action going on mostly because we’re still recuperating from the boat work we did just before we left Corfu. We also don’t have a chandlery open here which prevents us from pottering…
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Christmas in Croatia
Merry Christmas! We hope that everyone had a festive and fun day, especially after last year’s Christmas being so difficult for many people. This was our first Christmas onboard Nightshade – last year Phil was here on his own as I had a family emergency in Spain (so I spent Christmas as a visitor at…
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Bok! (That’s “hi” in Croatian)
It turns out I suck at blogging! I’m running about a year behind. Good job, me. So I guess I might publish some back-dated stuff over time. Maybe not. We’ll see. But back to the point: we are in Croatia! We sailed here from Corfu a couple weeks ago. We had a mad rush in…
Learning the lines living aboard our Celestial 48’ yacht
Sailing Nightshade 