Jacana

A windless day so motored the 28 miles out of the Bay of Naples and along the spectacular Amalfi coast, on the advice of friends Gwen and Peter to Amalfi. The mooring here is challenging, so much so that boats…

A day of being a tourist, so started with a very short train ride of one stop from the station very close to the harbour to Herculaneum, which befell the same fate as Pompeii in AD79 with the eruption of…

Over night, we were the only boat at anchor and with only 12 miles to go today, we took things easy this morning, with a tour round the crater in the dinghy. However we were rudely awaken at about 0745…

There’s getting to be a pattern to the weather, no wind until noon and then from the NW or W in the afternoon. So we motored for a couple of hours and then a decent sail for the rest of…

….. and we weren’t disappointed! The old town was absolutely beautiful with its meandering steps and alleyways rising between very old and colourful houses, opening up to vistas of the harbour and churches. It was not to be missed. Oh…

Another 50 miler today, although a bit less wind so only sailed for a couple of hours. Some beautiful scenery on the way with the coastline now turning mountainous. We decided to over night in Base Nautica Flavio Gioia, at…

With 50 miles to go today, we managed an early (for us) 0715 start, motoring in a totally flat and windless sea. It picked up however at about 11 giving us a fairly swift sail for the remainder of the…

Finally managed a decent sail for probably two thirds of the 40 miles crossing to the Italian mainland, to anchor for the fourth consecutive night just outside the harbour at Santa Marinello. We toyed with the idea of a run…

Yet another windless day, although it did pick up slightly during the day allowing us a fairly speedy motor sailing passage at close to 7kn with the wind almost behind us and the genoa out. We passed close to the…