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 middle of the sea? Would you feel ready to face […]

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 to capsizing inside the boat, along with everything that will […]

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 buy tickets from Friday afternoon, so we showed up at […]

“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 this type of sailing rig with movable mast, there are […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 you have at least a small kit made of flints […]

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 video: 20 survival tips Subscribe to Bright Side :https://goo.gl/rQTJZz Social Media: […]

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 […]

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 the roller with the song at the beginning of the […]

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, but they do not know what says that radio … […]

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 its strength in lightning. To be precise, Muggia has unloaded […]