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

Wed 29 Aug

Having looked at options to anchor on the shores of the Cinque Terre, and found them almost non-existent we decided to leave the boat anchored in Porto Venere and take public transport. Our first town, Riomaggiore...

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Captain's LogItaly

Sun 26 Aug to Tue 28 Aug

Sunday Much of Sunday was spent cleaning the boat from top to bottom inside and out, and umming and ahing about whether we should spend a second night in the marina. Although the wind had dropped the sea in the bay was...

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Captain's LogFranceItaly

Fri 17 Aug and Sat 18 Aug

Today was to be our last in Sardinia. We were planning originally on being here for a few weeks, but we enjoyed it so much it’s been closer to five! It was a quiet, uneventful day. In the morning we went to fill...

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Captain's LogItaly

Thu 16 Aug

Today was the big day – my eagerly awaited paddleboard should finally show up. I’ve been hitting “refresh” on the TNT tracking page for days now, I literally couldn’t wait to get my hands...

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Captain's LogItaly

Wed 15 Aug

The first order of business (after a latte and cornetti in our favourite coffee place) was a shopping run. Now that we’re in the swing of things we usually buy more or less the same stuff, and the question...

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Captain's LogItaly

Tue 14 Aug

Today we made the best use of the fact that we’re still moored up on a pontoon and not rocking around, plus having precious 4G! There’s a long list of things that we wanted to get cranking on for savvy...

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Captain's LogItaly

Mon 13 Aug

We wanted to take advantage of being moored alongside the town quay to do our engine service. It can get pretty messy so having the boat as stable as possible is a huge advantage. First order of business was to go to...

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Captain's LogItaly

Sat 11 Aug and Sun 12 Aug

Saturday was a pretty quiet day, we got through some admin and sat out the Mistral winds whilst watching the super yachts in Cala de Volpi. On Sunday morning we did a workout on the beach then got Bini ready to sail to...

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Captain's LogItaly

Fri 10 Aug

The weather forecast showed signs of a strong westerly Mistral wind building today then blowing through tomorrow and into Sunday. Where we were in La Maddalena was open to the west so we headed around the east side of...

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Captain's LogItaly

Thu 9 Aug

Having gone from never having done a single pull-up to doing significantly more than that, my shoulder is not happy. It’s worse in the mornings, but on the plus side it means I’m straight out of bed when I wake up so...

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Captain's LogItaly

Tue 7 Aug and Wed 8 Aug

Tuesday was a pretty quiet day. We stayed anchored in the bay next to Palau (off La Sciumara beach), went shopping in the morning and swam in the afternoon. We contemplated getting more water but what we’d filled up...

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Captain's LogItaly

Mon 6 Aug

After a good night sleep we got up and did a workout on a tiny beach on one of the rocky islands nearby. The sky was overcast and we were so grateful for the shade. Back on the boat we had breakfast and decided to head...

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