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Underway Again in 2021!Underway Again in 2021!
We got vaccinated some days ago here in Sicily. Thanks to the Italians treating us as foreigners with so much friendliness and vaccinate us without being resident. Thank you!
Today we are leaving this friendly island. A bit with a sad eye, but also happy to go sailing. We had a good time here. Great would be to visit Sicily without the ‘C’ thing.
We are heading to Carloforte on the southwestern tip of Sardinia. Our route is nearly direct 350nm equating to 2days, 15 hours.
Weather forecast is mostly light winds, except for the end. We hope to get into Carloforte before it blows.
We plan to sneak along the Sicilian coastline westbound. But have to be careful. There are some shallow areas. On the plus side, on this route we have less ship traffic.
The heavy ship traffic requires constant attention 24h.
And… our intrepid Navigator Remy will help us to make excellent decisions.
Left Cartagena on August 9th for Ibiza!Left Cartagena on August 9th for Ibiza!
Having a nice breeze and big rolling waves until midnight! After that it was no wind at all and we motored for 8 hours! Having wind again for nearly the rest of the way! The last 2 hours we had to use the engines again! We arrived in Ibiza at 3 pm. Found a very nice anchorage! After some difficulties anchoring ( after we realized our chain counter is totally off) we did fine! Martin dived to check the anchor and was totally down after he came back. Our anchor chain was wrapped around a rock and the anchor was jammed between two rocks. He was afraid we will not get it out. So we had to start the whole procedure again. Martin steered the boat so perfectly over the anchor, that I was able to get it up without a problem. Now we had to find a new spot and set it again. This went without any problems. Pheeeeeeewwwwww!
First thing we did was jump in the water and cooled down. This felt really good. After that we did a little dinghy tour to explore the area.
Not much to see during the trip. We had a really nice sunset! Having no internet connection, will post pictures soon.