Morpheus Sailing – Page 92 – Morpheus was designed by Carl Schumacher, built by Davie Norris Boatbuilders in New Zealand and launched in 2002. She spent her first 18 months cruising the South Pacific before reaching her home port of San Francisco. Since that time, Morpheus has been raced and cruised extensively. This blog will document her ongoing adventures.

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Mallorca

25 Aug 201315 Oct 2022

Deb and I made the 50+ mile sail from Ibiza to Mallorca yesterday. Another easy sail in 5-15 knots of wind. Once again it was touch and go regarding our…

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Isle de Formentera & Ibiza

22 Aug 201315 Oct 2022

We've spent the last three days anchored in a couple of different spots off the island of Formentera, and just this morning sailed over to Ibiza. Formentera is a beautiful…

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Isle de Formentera

22 Aug 201315 Oct 2022

Castles in the Sky

When travel around Spain like we have for the past couple of months, it seems like every significant hill has its own castle or fort built on it’s peak. Most…

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Goodbye Valencia

17 Aug 201315 Oct 2022

We are heading out from Valencia today. Most likely on to Ibiza and Palma. Will spend a week or so there before moving on to Barcelona where Suzanne Rischman and…

Una Chica Fantastica!!

//www.youtube.com/get_playerDeb's Spanish is making Spain easy for us. She is actually getting too good. I used to be able to follow along because she would throw a random English work…

Sailing! Yes, occasionally we do some of that too

Two short clips of us ripping along on our way to Valencia today. 20-24 knots of wind, 9-11 knots of boatspeed. Happy as can be...//www.youtube.com/get_player//www.youtube.com/get_player

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Jellyfish Cove

12 Aug 201315 Oct 2022

Here is something that I was not prepared for.We woke up this morning at anchor in a very nice little previously unnamed cove. It seemed perfect in every way, until…

Moonrise over Benidorm

Deb and I spent Friday and Saturday anchored off this small island. The winds and seas were almost non-existent, otherwise this would have been impossible. During the day, the place…

Morpheus Cruising

Half a World Away

Yesterday, Debbie and I sailed Morpheus over the Greenwich Meridian. The Greenwich Meridian, or the Prime Meridian, is Longitude's answer to Latitude's "equator". Check out the link above for more…