Valletta (mostly)
23 rd July - Porto Palo – Grand Harbour Valletta (in port) 24 th July - Grand Harbour Valletta (in port) 25 th July - Grand Harbour Valletta (in port) 26 th July - Valletta – Baija San Niklaw, Comino (anchored) 27 th July - Baija San Niklaw – Baija Tad...
Porto Palo
13 th July - Lipari – Stromboli (on a buoy) 14 th July - Stromboli – Naxos (in port) 15 th July - Naxos (in port) 16 th July - Naxos – Catania (in port) 17 th July - Catania (in port) 18 th July - Catania – Syracusa (anchored) 19 th July - Syracusa (anchored)...
Lipari
30 th June - 2 nd July - Procida Marina (in port) 3 rd July - Procida Marina - Amalfi (in port) 4 th July - Amalfi - Oligastro (anchored) 5 th - 6 th July - Oligastro – Tropea (in port) 7 th July - Tropea (in port) 8 th July - Tropea – Vulcano Porto di...
How to be cool (Sandy's guide to what's hot and what's not in cruising.)
These are all current trends I've seen on cruising yachts. My boat, needless to say, has none of these, but I'm working on it. This article will be added to as more instances of coolness present themselves. Anchor lights Never use your masthead anchor...
Procida Marina Part 2
19-21 June in Porto Vecchio (in port) 22-23 June - Porto Vecchio – Giglio (anchored in Cala Canelle) 24 June - Cala Canelle – Riva di Traiano (in port) 25-26 June in Riva di Traiano 27 June - Riva di Traiano to Anzio (anchored just outside port) 28 June...
Procida Marina Part 1
19-21 June in Porto Vecchio (in port) 22-23 June - Porto Vecchio – Giglio (anchored in Cala Canelle) 24 June - Cala Canelle – Riva di Traiano (in port) 25-26 June in Riva di Traiano (in port) 27 June - Riva di Traiano to Anzio (anchored just outside port)...
Porto Vecchio
9-13 June in Calvi 14 June - Calvi – Girolata 15 June - Girolata – Ajaccio 16 June - Ajaccio to Taravo (near Porto Pollo) 17 June - Taravo – Anse d'Arbitu 18 June - Anse d'Arbitu – Bonifacio 19 June - Bonifacio – Porto Vecchio 13 June Calvi The wind blows...
Westward to Corsica (sort of)
Sitting in the boat at anchor in Port Man, the night before, I was in two minds about doing the crossing to Corsica at all. To start with, the wind was forecast as ESE or SE depending on who you believed. This would be right on the nose and would mean...
Calvi
31 May - Les Stes Maries de la Mer – Marseilles (Frioul) 1 June - Marseilles – Cassis 2 June - Cassis – Bandol 2 – 6 June in Bandol 6 June - Bandol – Port Man 7 – 8 June - Port Man - Calvi I'm in full energy autonomy mode at the moment. I'm moored in...
Les Saintes Maries de la Mer
I've got to the fifth destination in my itinerary in only three days so I've decided to stop for a day in Les Sainte Maries de la Mer. There is some unlikely legend associated with the name. Bouillabaisse comes into it somewhere too. Anyway, it's in the...