A view out over Byron’s Grotto and up the Ligurian Coast.
The mainland coast of Italy lying along the northern part of the Tyrhennian Sea offers the cruising sailor almost no real protected anchorages. Anyone wishing to visit Rome must choose between an expensive marina or a dodgy tie-up in a working boat yard. Having been [...]
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The south coast of Italy between Salerno and Reggio Calabria offers some great cruising for visiting yachts. Most local boats skip this area when heading between the Aeolian Islands or Sicily and Naples. The noticeable lack of tourism in the area means that the towns are friendlier, the people curious and overall it is less [...]
We arrived at the Grand Harbor in the city of Siracusa (Syracuse) at about 1930 hours. The setting cast a lovely glow on the handsome buildings in the old town. The Grand Harbour quay was undergoing renovations, so we anchored in the large and well protected bay. Celebrating our arrival in Sicily over sundowners, we [...]
Fourteen hours after departing the charming village of Cavtat on the southern coast of Croatia, we arrived in Brindisi, Italy, 118 miles to the south on the opposite coast of the Adriatic Sea. The seas were flat calm all of the way, and the winds were mostly less than five knots. For a short time [...]
With more than 1100 ruggedly beautiful islands strung along its shoreline, Croatia’s 1100 mile Dalmatian Coast has become one of the most popular cruising destinations in the world. We left Moonshadow in the ACI Dubrovnik Marina over the winter with plans to start the season with a cruise northwest up the coast towards Italy.
After a [...]
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When I was living in the Bay Area, I knew where I would be on the last Sunday of April each year-out sailing for Opening Day on the San Francisco Bay. We happened to be in town for the event this year and were invited by recidivist Moo-Crew Eric Strasser to join he and 20 [...]
Just another Saturday on Auckland’s Waitemata Harbour. We had finished race three of the annual Classic Yacht Regatta on the Stewart 34 Princess and were heading back to Westhaven from the finish line out in the Motukorea Channel. We passed the Rangitoto Channel just in time to catch race four of the Louis Vuitton Pacific series finals. Emirates [...]
If you were lucky enough to be in Auckland on this year’s Anniversary Day, you would have been treated to fine weather, beautiful sailing conditions and beautiful array of classic yachts taking part in the annual Anniversary Day Regatta.
My mates Bill Falconer and Charles Scoones invited me aboard their classic 1960 Stewart 34 Princess for [...]
With a month left in the cruising season and just 200 miles to go to our final destination of Dubrovnik, we sat in Corfu and weighed our options.
The harbor, old town Dubrovnik, Croatia
Directly north of Greece on the way to Croatia is Albania. According to the Adriatic Pilot, formalities are complex, crime is [...]
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From the Turkish town of Cesme it was a short, eight-mile hop back to Greece and the island of Chios. We slipped away early in the morning before the mighty Meltemi began to blow and we found plenty of space to Med-moor on the quay in Chios town.
All the offices of officialdom were well hidden [...]
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