Kerry

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After working for Pro Nautik in Romanshorn for 24 years, I officially retired at the end of February 2010. Life is certainly not boring but our plan to take "Annina III" to the Mediterranean for a few years has was shelved, due to my health condition, mainly shoulders, knees and osteoporisis. We changed plans and bought a mid sized motor home (RV for Americans) and have done many very interesting tours to date. Check out the photo album for details of our tours.    It has also proved convenient for visiting family, as Miriam now lives in the South of France. We can travel with the Exsis to Aix en Provence and stay at the campground, travelling into town by bus, which is normally only about 7 minutes.

2020 was a year of celebrations. In February I turned 75, in May we had been married for 45 years , Elisabeth celebrated her 70th in June and Miriam's second baby, Louis arrived on the 27th of March, a little brother for Emma.

In 2015 we had a fantastic cruise up the west coast from Vancouver to Glacier Bay National Park via the inside passage, then followed with three weeks touring the Vancouver Island and the Canadian Rockies by motor home.

We enjoyed the cruise so much that we searched for a suitable cruise to experience the Pacific Islands. We had intended to spend a year cruising the Pacific in our yacht when we departed PNG, but were unexpectedly delayed in closing off the business and no longer had time for the Pacific. This cruise was to be a consolation for the missed cruise on our own yacht.

We found a great possibility with a relatively small cruise ship, Oceania's "Regatta". If you are interested, the album of this cruise in is on the photo album under Pacificcruise.htm    We were so impressed with the quality of the Oceania cruise, that while on board we booked another cruise for late 2019.  That was an amazing cruise, from Miami via the Caribbean to the Amazon, then a thousand nautical miles upstream to Manaus. We returned to Miami by a similar route, visiting different ports. It was really great.  We then booked further cruises for late 2020 and Summer 2021, but these had to be cancelled due to Corona. We now have a cruise on the Nile booked for February 2022, but we are not sure that that will eventuate either.

The Cassidy Clan is holding another Clan Rally near Enniskillen in Ireland this year, but it was originally scheduled for July 2020.  That was also cancelled due to Covid. We really enjoyed our last Clan Rally in 2017, which was part of an extended tour of Ireland in the motor home. (Details in the photo album). I have added a page for the Cassidy Clan to the start page if anyone is interested and details of the last rally are there.

If you are interested here are links to a few photos from our various travels etc:

Link to photos of motorhome

Link to photos of Northern Germany 2011

Link to photos of Scandinavia 2013

Link to photos of Southern France 2013

Link to photos of Canada and Alaska 2015

Link to album of Pacific Cruise 2017

Link to photos of Ireland 2017

If you would like to look at further albums, I have recently started putting them on my private cloud.

I'd be happy to invite you to view them, but I need your e-mail to invite you.

Miriam and André are now living in the South of France and really enjoy the area. We do too!

John and Tina with their two children are doing well. Liam will be 12 in January 2022 and Elaine turned 10 last October.

They live much closer to us, but have such busy schedules that we don't see much more of them than of Miriam and family.

My great love, (other than Elisabeth) is still sailing.

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"Annina III"

Late in Summer 2004 we chanced upon a yacht that we had long dreamed of owning for the Lake of Constance. I had been commissioned to repair the refrigerator on a Hallberg Rassy 312 and while talking to the client I discovered that the yacht was for sale. After negotiating a few hurdles, we were able to buy the yacht in Autumn 2004.  I have now spent considerable time working on it and have done quite a few repairs and some upgrading to make her even more comfortable. We enjoy the added comfort she offers over our previous yacht and we will be spending as much time as possible on the lake again this year.         

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Sailing, Annina III, Lake of Constance

We have sailed quite a bit in the Mediterranean over the last few years. We have joined friends in Sardinia and Turkey several times and in 2007 joined another friend to sail from Tunisia to North East Sardinia. They have all been wonderful experiences and have managed to arouse our lust for cruising again. In Spring of 2012 and 2013 we joined friends, first on a trip through the Rhein Rhone Canal and later in the South of France. That was a special experience.

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                                    (Photo: Knidos, Turkey, 2004)

I have posted a few photos of the Mediterranean in the photo album.   I have now sorted the Med. photos into the various regions. Just click on the desired area to open an album. I hope to be able to expand on these photos in the next few years.  They are meant to help cruising yachties to get an idea of the various harbours and anchorages.   (Photo Album)

 

 

 

2021

Most of our friends who had yachts in the Mediterranean have now sold them, with the exception of Urs Rusterholtz.

We have joined him for quite a few interesting and enjoyable cruises. Some years ago he moved his yacht from Sete to Croatia and we have now seen quite a lot of the Croatian coastline and islands. That area is really beautiful, the people are friendly and it often has good sailing conditions.

We had another enjoyable cruise with Urs in 2021.

 

Regards, Kerry.

 

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