The Boat
Red Roo is an Alliage 38, a French designed and built aluminium centerboarder designed for blue water cruising. Builder: Alliage Constructed: 2004 Designers: Berret/Racoupeau Length: 12 m Beam: 3.9m Draught: 0.8m / 2.2m (lifting centre board) Material: Aluminium Rig: Sloop Cabins: 2 Sleeping +…
The Crew
Captain – Phil After being exposed to various boats, yachts & elements of sailing on and off all his life Phil made the plunge into sailing life full time with a two part adventure initially from Tasmania to New Zealand and then part two being…
Our Journey
Our Journey So Far . . . We set sail from Le Havre (France) in November 2015 to explore Europe and beyond with the plan to eventually sail our way back home to Australia. However Australia is a long way off, we have a lot to see…
Fixing Stuff & Exploring Valletta
We booked two nights in a marina to deal with our “issues” and had the technicians booked in to visit. We docked at 07:30 and they were on the boat by 09:00 and even more thrilling was that by 11:00 our power issues had…
More of Malta
Just south of Comino (from our last blog) is the largest island of Malta. Although it is the largest, it is still rather small – the island is 27 km long and 14.5 km wide with a population of 460,000 on this the main…
Comino Island (The Little Island) Malta
We spent a week anchoring and exploring this wonderful little island. The country of Malta is made up of three islands, Malta, Gozo & Comino, with Comino being the the smallest in size at only 3.5 square kilometres and located between the two bigger…
