Learning the lines living aboard our Celestial 48’ yacht

Privacy

Who we are

Our website address is: http://old.sailingnightshade.com. In order to abide by GDPR and other privacy policy regulations, we’ve included the following basic WordPress Privacy Policy blurb in the hopes that it covers all the bases on this personal blog:

What personal data we collect and why we collect it

Comments

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Cookies

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Embedded content from other websites

Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.

These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

How long we retain your data

If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.

Where we send your data

Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.

  • Ahoy, Mateys!

    Hi! We’re Phillip and Luana and we live aboard our 30-something year old sailing yacht, Nightshade. We’re fixing her up and getting her ready to head out into the deep blue one day. In the meantime we’ll potter around the turquoise waters of the Mediterranean, learning the lines and making our floating home our version…

  • Temporary Residence in Croatia for Yachties

    Updated October 2024 We often get asked about the process of gaining temporary residence here in Croatia. Post-Brexit, many Brits aren’t able to spend the whole of summer sailing in European waters anymore. 3 months of Schengen time is generous, but it’s not quite enough if you’ve got your own place (per se, in this…

  • Blog Tweaks

    I’ve been busy moving the blog to another server – as all you bloggers out there know, it’s a schlep but I wanted to do it now while there are only a few posts (lazy blogger 🤚). I’ve updated the info on our Contact Us page too, so check it out for links to our…

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  • Topsy-turvy 2022

    Hello again! Wow it’s been a weird year, hasn’t it? I honestly have not had the spare emotional energy to get on top of updating our social media outlets. But we’re alive and kicking, and, in such tumultuous times, that’s nothing to be sneezed at. Hoping you are all well, healthy and safe, wherever you…

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  • Boat Work

    While we’ve been wintering here in Croatia we’ve been thinking about the boat work we still need to do. Not a lot of action going on mostly because we’re still recuperating from the boat work we did just before we left Corfu. We also don’t have a chandlery open here which prevents us from pottering…

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  • Christmas in Croatia

    Merry Christmas! We hope that everyone had a festive and fun day, especially after last year’s Christmas being so difficult for many people. This was our first Christmas onboard Nightshade – last year Phil was here on his own as I had a family emergency in Spain (so I spent Christmas as a visitor at…

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