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 18 Jul

When we woke up this morning the first thing we started discussing were strategies for how to release the anchor from its perfectly anchor-shaped rocky hole. Who said romance is dead? After a cup of tea we donned...

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Captain's LogItaly

Tue 17 Jul

Our night of doing anchor watch shifts ended at 05:00 as the wind dropped and the splice held, so we finally managed to get some sleep, interrupted only briefly when the voltage alarm for the batteries went off. First...

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Captain's LogItaly

Mon 16 Jul

This morning the wind picked up almost exactly at 08:00 as predicted. We were sitting well, the anchor was holding and we weren’t moving. We made ourselves a biiiiig post-passage breakfast (any excuse!) and sat on deck...

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