Fuel is essential…! When you go to sea, especially on a motorboat or a sailboat, you are not driving a car on land…, you cannot think as if there were a fuel station in every small bay, so this is how I reason…: Assuming a 100-liter tank, just to keep […]
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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 […]
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 […]
Winter is the time when several cyclones are created scattered around the globe, but I had not yet personally seen a forecast with two cyclones one behind the other in the North Pacific Ocean. Unfortunately, one will point again with Cambodia / Vietnam, while the other will remain in the […]
The prediction is truly monstrous Today, Tuesday 27 October 2020, a monstrous forecast is expected. We are talking about waves predicted from 15 meters of the ECMWF WAM 3 model to the forecast of 18 meters with a period of 15 seconds, of the WaveWatch model. That’s not the only […]
Is this route really possible? In recent days, at a quiz on RAI 1, they asserted that a sea route from Pakistan to the Kamchatka peninsula in Russia was possible, right by right without running into any obstacle. I tried to run it with Google Earth PRO, but I couldn’t […]
Have you ever had to open an emergency raft at sea? Drop it from a sailboat into the water? At night? What’s more, during a strong storm? To be able to climb on it and be able to cut the line and have to wait for help, alone in the […]
Have you ever taken on water? Have you ever woken up at 2 a.m., onboard your sailing boat underway, and put your feet on the floor only to feel it wet? It’s a feeling you don’t easily forget, probably one of the worst you can experience at sea, especially if […]
Many have wondered… What happens to a sailboat when it capsizes? Here is a video that demonstrates it … In this video you can see how everything, in fact, turns upside down. It must surely be a disorienting experience, everything overturns and falls to the ground, you too are subject […]
I went to the 60th Genoa International Motor Show Some friends came to see me and we had decided to go to the boat show on Saturday morning. Unfortunately, we already knew from Friday that the show would be sold out. On the website it was no longer possible to […]
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 […]
“Giornale Luce” of January 1935 From Stockholm … For the lovers of life on the sea: here is a model of yacht built with a new system that aims to reduce the veiling to eliminate the risk and the difficulty of managing numerous sails, when the wind is raging. In […]
It looks like a nice system for faster, safer and more stable surfing. The only flaw is having these two wings, which look a bit like hanging wings, but in reality when they are closed on the bridge they don’t seem to be so hostile to the use of the […]
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 […]
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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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Can you make a hook from a zip or a tongue of the cans? This is a very interesting video that explains how to survive with the most common objects available in everyday life. Explain the fastest techniques to light a fire and survive in an uninhabitable place. Agreement unless […]
An excellent video that explains how to behave in a situation of abandonment of ship or landing with a plane at sea. Calm, stay calm, then immediately find something to float on and protect yourself from the sun’s rays. Try to recover as much water as possible … Another interesting […]
Ah the seas of the north … sailing during the extreme winter conditions of the North Sea … – chilly eh, but at the end with a ski mask it solves everything … ah that air brisk .. and waves … – Watch it all if you have time, or […]
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” […]
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 […]
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 […]
In the indefinite locality of the Adriatic Sea … sighting of the Delagnones romagnolones … as soon as we arrived, they came to say hello and play under the bow for at least ten minutes … four or five beautiful adult specimens … Yoooo …. At the bottom I put […]
It’s a simple Bluetooth receiver! Yes…! A very simple bluetooth receiver …! Nothing more, but will turn your life into a boat, especially if you have people who want to send music and keep tampering with the stereo settings, shooting the music at full throttle, completely canceling the VHF sound, […]
During the strong storm in Croatia for Sunday, August 26, 2018, which fell from the North West like a saber, also creating a Waterspout during a stormy storm August 26, 2018, during his arrival, passing from Trieste, driven by strong bora winds that in northern Adriatic, they reached 50 knots, unloaded […]
