Sailing to Sardinia
We left beautiful Palermo and our happy memories there at 10.30 on the 9th August, heading to the most northern west tip of Sicily, our launching point for Sardinia, Capo di San Vito where...
"The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails." — William Arthur Ward, Writer
We left beautiful Palermo and our happy memories there at 10.30 on the 9th August, heading to the most northern west tip of Sicily, our launching point for Sardinia, Capo di San Vito where...
We must firstly apologise for the length of this blog, but when, if 😉, you get to the bottom, you will soon see that Palermo cannot be done in a day or a short...
On the 3rd August we set off from Salina to cross the 50NM’s back to the northern shores of Sicily, in particular the city of Cefalu which we have never been to. The first...
2023 / The Aeolian Archipelago
by Chantal & David · Published August 27, 2023 · Last modified January 3, 2024
A new dawn, a new day, and with our dinghy safely back on board Seaclusion we set off on the 1st August northwards to Stromboli, the northern most island of the Archipelago, passing the...
2023 / The Aeolian Archipelago
by Chantal & David · Published August 24, 2023 · Last modified January 3, 2024
After a wonderful evening in Scilla we left our safe buoy early on the 29th July and headed across the 43 NM’s to an anchorage on the west coast of Vuclano, the first of...
by Chantal & David · Published August 18, 2023 · Last modified January 5, 2024
On the 21st July we set sail to Sicily. This was not a one day trip so we had to work out where along the Italian coast we could take shelter each night in...
by Chantal & David · Published June 17, 2015 · Last modified February 12, 2020
Well it has been a long time since we left Seaclusion in Marina di Ragusa on Sicily. In fact we have been away a month now, so it has been very remiss of us...
We left Marzamemi last Thursday and had a great sail, tacking around the south eastern tip of Sicily, right until we got to a harbour called Porto Palo. Harbour, in the loosest sense of...
Having finally left Siracusa, we headed off round the corner to a Marina Reserve called Plemmirio, where you were not allowed to drop an anchor and had to take a buoy (kindly provided for...
5th September – No sooner had we arrived safely in the bay of Guardiano Naxos & Taormina, we were approached by a guy in a dinghy, as ever, trying to extract 50€ for the...