Boating season is officially starting!

Those pics both from San Pietro and also from SoF bring back many warm memories. Feel very lucky to have had a change to experience them first hand.

Those are pretty fantastic places to have for yourselves :) :encouragement:

The season here is ending slowly as many shoreside marinas/restaurants are open only on weekends now and close for winter at the end of September.

Around here I actually prefer the 'crowded' summer season as it's nice to see other boaters around. Towards the end of the season it gets pretty quiet...
 
scubaman said:
The season here is ending slowly as many shoreside marinas/restaurants are open only on weekends now and close for winter at the end of September.
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Well K, my offer to Deleted User in post #7 is 100% valid also for yourself - anytime! :encouragement:
 
MapisM said:
Well K, my offer to Deleted User in post #7 is 100% valid also for yourself - anytime! :encouragement:
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Sorry P missed that post. Thanks for your kind offer and I can assure you that one day we will take you up on that offer!
 
Deleted User said:
Sorry P missed that post. Thanks for your kind offer and I can assure you that one day we will take you up on that offer!
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when you travel to sardegna, remember you still have a pending offer for a visit and stay onboard BA,
The boat is in Cagliari, in the center of the city just across the street.
You could get a feel how a Italian make 75ft ship looks and feels inside (re your next boat :) )
and experience the pleasure of battery powered fin stabs :D
 
scubaman said:
Those pics both from San Pietro and also from SoF bring back many warm memories. Feel very lucky to have had a change to experience them first hand.........
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I know what you mean K, both Bart and P, with their lovely partners, are some of the best hosts you will meet, cruising in this amazing part of the Med
 
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BartW said:
....You could get a feel how a Italian make 75ft ship looks and feels inside (re your next boat :) )
and experience the pleasure of battery powered fin stabs :D
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I do agree with you Bart, with newer productions in terms of actual size compared to the marketed/indicated size, BA is huge for a "70'er". Huge headroom all the way through and very generous cabin and heads areas, I can see why a big guy like yourself was so attracted to her in the first place, I also look for the same things.
The SL that was towed back to Cagliari harbour on our first day at 85-ish feet, alongside BA looked only slightly longer and no wider. I struggled to believe it was as big as you said at first.
 
Gggrrrr, weather in Spain for the next 10 days is looking appalling. Our engineer says it might be so bad that we'd need a 4WD to get down the hill to the marina. We're due to fly out on Friday and he suggests postponing, easier said than done with flights, hire car, parking, annual leave, cat and dog sitters already booked.
 
Yup, also in S Sard the forecast for this week doesn't seem attractive at all, weatherwise.
Oh, well. All we have to do is wait for the normal sunshine and light breeze to be restored! :cool:
 
Agreed
We are returning to SC in the last good weather for a week or so.
Passage from Santa Ponsa to SC took 7 hrs - half of it pootling.
Still I have the car here and there is lots to do ashore.
 
Bouba said:
One day, when I’m a lot braver, I will join you on the Welsh Med during one of your anti-yottie patrols:)
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They're terrible anchor bandits and must be lonely. One has to see them off before they get close to the hook otherwise they stick worse than barnacles.
 
Irish Sea looking good Friday/Saturday so off to Cumbria....wouldn’t dare go south towards the idiots partying on a Welsh beach :)
 
Saturday the wind will pick up and smite you on your return journey. Mark my words, you'll have a nice head sea to loosen the cabin ceiling panels. We will be heading out for a BBQ like sensible and responsible boaters. Sing Kumbaya round a camp fire, and if we're lucky have an impromptu pole dancing sesh to some Thrash Metal. Roy has taken to the superyacht malarkey in the other thread and has been seen practising his routine on the yield sign on the A55 off-ramp into Conwy. So far he's collected the princely sum of ten pounds and fifteen pence in busking tips and a thirty pound fine for public indecency.
 
BruceK said:
Saturday the wind will pick up and smite you on your return journey. Mark my words, you'll have a nice head sea to loosen the cabin ceiling panels. We will be heading out for a BBQ like sensible and responsible boaters. Sing Kumbaya round a camp fire, and if we're lucky have an impromptu pole dancing sesh to some Thrash Metal. Roy has taken to the superyacht malarkey in the other thread and has been seen practising his routine on the yield sign on the A55 off-ramp into Conwy. So far he's collected the princely sum of ten pounds and fifteen pence in busking tips and a thirty pound fine for public indecency.
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Dammit....just checked the latest model run and you are quite right....stay local it is then.....no hardship :encouragement:
 
Weather is absolutely diabolical here in Spain. Howling gales, thunder lightening, occasional torrential downpour, weird light, etc. At least I haven't got a hangover to top it off like I had yesterday.

In fact I'd hazard a guess that the Welsh Med might be an improvement!
 
The Med Med here is dead calm, tomorrow morning I’m planning to spend a couple of nights away, before the Spanish weather arrives!
 
petem said:
Weather is absolutely diabolical here in Spain. Howling gales, thunder lightening...
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What are you doing inland, P? Just move to your boat! :D :p

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