Cam & Tom's Sailing Blog

Sun 28 Apr to Fri 3 May – First sails of the season!

Marina di Ragusa to Portopalo Distance: 35NMSunday 28th April. Departed 09:00, arrived 15:30 Our original plan was to sail around to Syracuse today, a journey of approximately 12 hours so we wanted to be up...

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Category - Italy

Captain's LogItaly

Tue 25 Sep – Party in Lipari

On Tuesday morning we were up early, woken by the wind which had started to build. It was clear this wasn’t going to be a good anchorage to sit out the winds, so we decided to head over to Lipari. Up on deck we...

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Sat 22 Sep to Mon 24 Sep

Rome to Ponza to the Sicilian Islands. We left Rome at 05:00 on Saturday morning and arrived on Ponza just as the sun was setting and dropped anchor in a huge (and very busy) bay a short dinghy ride to the town. After a...

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Wed 5 Sep and Thu 6 Sep – Capraia

It’s been a while since we’ve been anchored in clear blue water. OK, a “while” is only about 9 days but we were were really looking forward to a swim. Once in the water however we noticed we were not alone. Floating all...

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Captain's LogItaly

Fri 31 Aug

We didn’t much fancy forking out another 45 euros to visit the next Cinque Terre town so we decided to sail up to Corniglia (6NM away) which had mooring buoys for the boat. After doing a short workout on deck (not the...

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Thu 30 Aug

After a quiet morning sitting out the rain we went for a walk around Porto Venere which, like the Cinque Terre is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. It’s main attractions include two very old churches (built in 1198 and...

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