The Perfect Sailing Day: Big Tuna & A Big Shipwreck
We sail from Milos to Cape Malea aboard Bluefish, our Lagoon 42 catamaran, on a 12 hour passage across the southern Aegean.
The day starts early with open sea ahead, the course set, and enough miles to cover that we need to keep the boat moving if we want to arrive in daylight. With the Code Zero up first, then the jib as the wind builds, Bluefish settles into a great passage — steady wind, good speed, and the boat moving at up to 7–8 knots towards one of the most famous capes in Greece.
Cape Malea has had a reputation since the time of Odysseus. Wind can build quickly here, and after our last experience sailing past the cape, we know it is a place to respect.
But this passage gives us one of our best sailing days of the season — and then the fishing lines go off. We catch two tuna on the way, including one around 10kg, turning a good passage into a very memorable one.
After arriving below Cape Malea, we anchor near the wreck of the Kaptan Ismail Hakki, a Turkish cargo ship that sank here in 1978. The next day we dive on the wreck in clear shallow water, paddle around the boat, and explore the Petrified Palm Forest right next to our anchorage — one of Europe’s rare coastal petrified palm forests, dating back around two to three million years.
This episode is a full sailing day: a 12 hour passage, proper wind, tuna on passage, Cape Malea, a shipwreck, clear water, and a petrified forest below one of the most legendary capes in Greece.
We’re Sailing Bluefish — Fredrik from Sweden, Laura from the UK, and our two New Zealand-born boys Lucas & Noa, living full-time aboard our Lagoon 42 catamaran in the Mediterranean.
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We sail from Milos to Cape Malea aboard Bluefish, our Lagoon 42 catamaran, on a 12 hour passage across the southern Aegean.
The day starts early with open sea ahead, the course set, and enough miles to cover that we need to keep the boat moving if we want to arrive in daylight. With the Code Zero up first, then the jib as the wind builds, Bluefish settles into a great passage — steady wind, good speed, and the boat moving at up to 7–8 knots towards one of the most famous capes in Greece.
Cape Malea has had a reputation since the time of Odysseus. Wind can build quickly here, and after our last experience sailing past the cape, we know it is a place to respect.
But this passage gives us one of our best sailing days of the season — and then the fishing lines go off. We catch two tuna on the way, including one around 10kg, turning a good passage into a very memorable one.
After arriving below Cape Malea, we anchor near the wreck of the Kaptan Ismail Hakki, a Turkish cargo ship that sank here in 1978. The next day we dive on the wreck in clear shallow water, paddle around the boat, and explore the Petrified Palm Forest right next to our anchorage — one of Europe’s rare coastal petrified palm forests, dating back around two to three million years.
This episode is a full sailing day: a 12 hour passage, proper wind, tuna on passage, Cape Malea, a shipwreck, clear water, and a petrified forest below one of the most legendary capes in Greece.
We’re Sailing Bluefish — Fredrik from Sweden, Laura from the UK, and our two New Zealand-born boys Lucas & Noa, living full-time aboard our Lagoon 42 catamaran in the Mediterranean.
Sailing Bluefish
A family living full-time aboard a Lagoon 42 catamaran, sailing Greece and exploring real boat life in the Mediterranean. We’re Sailing Bluefish — Fredrik from Sweden, Laura from the UK, and our two New Zealand-born boys. After building businesses and raising our family in New Zealand, we chose a different kind of life. Now our home floats. We’ve been sailing and living aboard for the past two years. We’re only now sharing the journey properly on YouTube. This channel follows the real rhythm of full-time catamaran life — Mediterranean sailing, family life aboard, worldschooling, boat systems, maintenance, repairs, anchorages, passages, weather, waiting, and the everyday lessons learned through trial and error. If you’re curious about family liveaboard sailing, Lagoon 42 life, sailing Greece, and what it really takes to live full-time on the water, welcome aboard.
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