The island of Biševo near the island of Vis Biševo Island is a small island east of the larger island of Vis. It can be reached by boat or by ferries or small boats that bring tourists back and forth from the island of Vis. The ferries mainly stop at the port of Porto Mezzo, where the tourists disembark and […]
Board logs
On-board logos of the transfers I have done on a sailing boat. Also highlights of my life, moments or events during my journey; towards, I do not know where …
In ancient times … … On any island 🏝 … on a beach 🏖 in any country … Let’s do an experiment … 🎛🔬⚗ … but how much plastic is there ??? Unfortunately, this is the only original video left, since I lost my mobile phone at sea, where the originals were saved, obviously without having backed up, during the […]
Have you ever seen Capo Santa Chiara of Genoa from the sea …? If you have never seen it, with this video you can try what the fishermen and sailors who arrive near Capo Santa Chiara in Genoa see and what they see when they are under the promontory. You can perfectly see the Türcke castle, the liberty structure that […]
This summer I’m back in Sicily We made beautiful trips around all the islands, Vulcano, Lipari, Alicudi, Filicudi, Panarea, Salina, we went to make beautiful visits to the wineries on the islands and for fruit fields, we went to the caves and went for splendid baths with wonderful seabeds. But every time we approached Stromboli, I expressed my dissent, because […]
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Arriving to the island of Ustica from Terrasini in Sicily, where we left in the morning with a beautiful sailboat, around eleven o’clock morning, we came across a beautiful pack of dolphins . It was a decidedly large pack. These dolphins behaved differently from those I normally saw, perhaps more accustomed to passing ships. In particular, this herd was immediately […]
We came from Ustica, the Ustica auctioneer. We left the Ustica marina early in the morning and set the sails in such a way that we could make a nice, light and fluid navigation. There was a beautiful sea breeze that allowed us to sail with a Yankee, sling and mainsail. During our navigation we also freed a turtle from […]
Have you ever dismasted and then re-raised? Or, have you ever noticed that you have a soft rigging? Have you ever had the need to measure the rigging tension of your sailboat? Well, to do that there is an instrument called a StringMeter for shrouds. It is used to measure the tension of the shrouds correctly, for navigation or before […]
I remember years ago, the quay tale of a Miami motor yacht commander, who asked what that new lighthouse was down there. The sailors of Milan replied to him that he was the Lantern and this said that knowing the port of Genoa had never seen it … they replied that it was there, at least since 1300. In short, […]
It’s been more than a month since the storm that destroyed the dam of the tourist port of Rapallo and this is the situation today. As can be seen from the photographs, there are several boats and boats on the beach or stranded on the shore of the beach or on the beach in front of the seafront. At the […]
It’s a bit ‘that I’m in love with a young lady …! But in the end I went out with this other Miss … and I definitely fell in love … hello .. hello … I spent all Sunday afternoon with you. We are prepared for the exit, we took off, opened the sails together, we took the route and […]
I met the owner of this boat, who also gave me his business card … A great … the boat beats the Canadian flag, comes from Canada and it will be all round the Mediterranean, coast to coast, palm in the palm … I found it on the pontoon “H” when I got off the sailboat. From what I understand […]
Finally I’m home, lying down a cot in the sun of Riccione. The background of the promoter of Gabicce. What actually Monte San Bartolo. The first mountain that is from Trieste coming up to Pesaro. Behind the Gabicce mountain there is. Pesaro, and I will start the brands. The physical separation line between Emilia-Romagna and Marche. Under the mountain of […]
We have to celebrate tonight … We have reached the 500 “I like” quota on the Facebook page. We can also celebrate, because, after about a week of uninterrupted work on the site, I finished the renovation. Now I can count on a multi-language site thanks to the PolyLang plug-in. I’ve improved indexing on search engines, even if it’s not over. […]
I was in Alghero, with the stranger (that I would be …) … the legendary Venanzio and I, exhausted by a two-day sailing with strong wind on the west side of Corsica, from San Remo, with only salty food, for a small problem, finally landed, took two bicycles we went for a ride to Alghero … When I saw this […]
Topic: there is no traffic and it pours a bang with gusts of 25 kn … I’m going straight into the southbound perturbation, towards the Strait of Messina, across the island of Stromboli … lots of water and waves … wave … (the talk was between one of my best friends Jack and me, about the fact that he was […]
