The gulf of Naples is difficult in August and HOT. There is no or little wind but the boat and ship traffic is incredible. Sometimes it feels like every single resident of the city is out on an over ...
The sail from Eastern Sardinia to the Italian mainland is about 200 miles, one of the longest ocean passages in the Med you can make. But you can reduce that to 160 miles if you stop at Ponza, a very ...
After the Costa Smeralda, Isola di Tavolara was next. Yes, as indicated by the name, it is a table-like mountain of impressive height with white cliffs everywhere. It also lies in a marine reserve a ...
The Admiral and I had a great sail from the northern Maddalena Islands to Cannigione on Sardinia. Quite a bit of upwind work but it's easy around here. You go up to the scary looking rocks until the ...
Kincsem is sitting on a mooring in a bay right out of science fiction at La Maddalena Island. Strange reddish rock formations with a bit of green garnish rising out of crystal clear turquoise and blue ...
George and Martina Gates arrived one day late thanks to Air France which gave us another day in Ajaccio. Ajaccio is the biggest city in Corsica and not very attractive but the Tino Rossi harbor was ...
dsc_0060-10.43.00-am.jpg Another phantastic anchorage here underneath some high mountains. The only drawback is the tripper boats that race through here with some regularity and make a bit of swell. ...
dsc_0134-10.43.05-am.jpg The Antonis and Richmans arrived on July 1 so Floatel Kincsem is now fully booked for the week. Our first day we sailed a bit and motored a bit and got to Maccinaggio, a som ...
It was tough to get here on Thursday of this week. It has been blowing hard from the West in the Med the last few days. We “had” to get from Elba to Corsica by yesterday and Thursday was the o ...
We got here on Monday and it was a bit of a disaster. We were motoring along when entering the bay of Portoferraio and we had the bright idea to maybe cruise along the coast for a bit and maybe go f ...