Yacht Gyatso Home Page - Cruising logbook for the sailboat Gyatso's voyage on the U.S. Atlantic coast, Bahamas, Eastern Caribbean, Atlantic Crossing, Mediterranean and Black Sea

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Gyatso under sail on the Black Sea in September 2010.

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Wintering-over in Marmaris, Turkey.

Gyatso underway on the Atlantic Ocean.

Welcome!

We set-up this website so that family, friends, and fellow sailors can track us on our latest journey aboard Gyatso. In October 2005, we purchased our 20-year old, Tayana 37 sailboat in Maine and moved aboard. Since then, we sailed to the Chesapeake Bay, Florida, the Bahamas and back again -- an extended "shakedown" cruise while completing a major refit. In November 2006, we sailed from Annapolis to the BVIs and spent six months cruising in the Eastern Caribbean before crossing the Atlantic to Europe in the summer of 2007. In 2008, we sailed from Portugal through the Strait of Gibraltar and into the Western Mediterranean. In 2009, we visited Sicily, Tunisia, Malta and Greece on our way to Turkey. In 2010, we plan to sail north through the Aegean Sea to Istanbul and then around the Black Sea.

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Black Sea Cruising Guide now available as an e-pilot

Date: 6/20/2011

The RCC Pilotage Foundation publishes (text only) version of the guide

Our Black Sea Cruising Guide is now available for download in a text-only format from the RCC Pilotage Foundation website. Print and electronic versions with full graphics, including new and updated harbor plans, are in production as a joint venture between the RCCPF and Imray and will be available for the 2012 cruising season.

For our personal account of sailing on the Black Sea see: Logbook for the Black Sea 2010.

Sailing Log Updates

9/16/2010--Completed circumnavigation of the Black Sea.
5/29/2010--Departed Istanbul for the Black Sea.
4/15/2010--Departed Marmaris for the 2010 cruising season.
10/01/2009--Arrived in Marmaris, Turkey for the winter.
08/29/2009--Arrived in Greece.
08/15/2009--Back in Sicily again after a month away.
07/28/2009--Arrived in Malta after a brief stop-over in Pantelleria.
07/16/2009--Arrived in Sidi Bou Said, Tunisia -- our first port-of-call in Africa.
06/14/2009--Off to the Aeolian Islands and Sicily.
05/13/2009--Arrived in Vibo Valentia, Italy for a one-month stay after a last-minute change of plan.
05/06/2009--Underway again! See: Logbook for Southern Italy.

YouTube Videos

In 2009, we began to record short videos about our experiences while cruising. If you would like to receive notices whenever we upload a new video, subscribe to "svgyatso" on YouTube. To view a video, click on the links below:

Current Location

10/20/10--Marmaris, Turkey
Gyatso is hauled-out at Yacht Marine.

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Logbooks

2010

2009

2008

2007

2006

2005

What's New

1/1/12--See article on pp. 40-41 in the January issue of SpinSheet Magazine.

12/1/11--See article on pp. 48-49 in the December issue of SpinSheet Magazine.

11/1/11--See article on p. 49 in the November issue of SpinSheet Magazine.

10/1/11--See article on pp. 98-101 in the October issue of SpinSheet Magazine.

9/1/11--See article by Lisa on p.61 of the September issue of SpinSheet Magazine.

6/1/11--We are sitting out the spring/summer sailing season while we finish-up the Black Sea Cruising Guide and settle back into our house in Annapolis.

3/26/11--We were awarded the Water Music Trophy at the Ocean Cruising Club's annual meeting in Southampton, England.

12/31/10--The "Xenophon's Wake" article we wrote about the Black Sea was published this month in Flying Fish, the Ocean Cruising Club's journal.

See also: What's New Archive.

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