jfm
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Yup 100% correct Hurricane. Near Flavia. Beautiful spot. I have more pics but they are mostly full of people so I won't post them here.
New build Sanlorenzo SL96A 2024
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roa312
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Thanks for posting all those pictures—looks very nice! I just noticed that the caulking on the bathing platform is black. I'm not aware if that's standard and if it's because white caulking doesn't hold up well under the harsher conditions there?
Given the size of the boat, do you need to book marina berths well in advance and plan your waypoints accordingly, or how do you manage that?
Given the size of the boat, do you need to book marina berths well in advance and plan your waypoints accordingly, or how do you manage that?
Hurricane
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My guess would be Corno but I only went there a couple of times (once with you)It looks like it because it is!
The islet at the horizon in the 2nd pic is much harder to identify, but I won't spill the beans for a while because I'm curious to check if anyone by now familiar with southern Sardinia can spot it and win a virtual Mars bar...
Hurricane
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jfm
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The caulking throughout the boat is light grey. The bathing platform is made of slats, with drain gaps between them, and no caulking at all. The gaps just look like black in the pictures. I don't love this part of the design and I think a traditional caulked platform would have been better, but it's been a sanlorenzo thing for years.
jfm
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Nope!
It's Isola del Toro. The southern most bit of Sardinia I think.
The photo is taken running southwards down the west coast of Sant'Antioco island, the island just south east of San Pietro island.
Hurricane
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Dogone
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Looks really nice. I’m currently near the toe of Italy and looking for a cruising ground for next year. It will be probably either Carloforte and so near you now or Capo d’Orlando or similar in N. Sicily. What do you reckon? My preference is quiet, not chaos.
MapisM
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Wow, that qualifies as a connoisseur comment!
Even most locals, if asked what's the southernmost tip of Sardinia, would answer Cape Teulada.
But that's indeed the Toro island instead, albeit barely.
I guess that's understandable, when you consider that it's a small, completely uninhabited islet right in the middle of nowhere, and not along any route.
Though it's good for fishing, as I'm told!
MapisM
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That's an interesting pic, M.
In fact, the Toro island at the horizon is definitely south of where it was taken - i.e., by and large from the same perspective as jfm pic.
That's easy to tell because, if you look at the (rather typical) profile of the islet, it's the same as in jfm pic.
If you were looking in the opposite direction (i.e. pointing N), that profile would be reversed.
BUT, while I can be positive about this, I struggle to understand in which bay you were anchored in this pic.
In fact, the Toro position at the horizon suggests that the pic was taken somewhere along the E side of San Pietro island, but that's a stretch of coast that I literally know like the back of my hand, and I can't for the life of me think of a place like it, in that area.
Any chance that the pic is flipped horizontally, maybe?
MapisM
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As a folkloristic note, you deserve bonus points even just for reminding the name of Corno, which is a tiny rock on the W coast of San Pietro island.
Right in front of the spot in my avatar, BTW!
MrB
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Love the black hand rails on the top deck, very slick.
Hurricane
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My mistake, PThat's an interesting pic, M.
In fact, the Toro island at the horizon is definitely south of where it was taken - i.e., by and large from the same perspective as jfm pic.
That's easy to tell because, if you look at the (rather typical) profile of the islet, it's the same as in jfm pic.
If you were looking in the opposite direction (i.e. pointing N), that profile would be reversed.
BUT, while I can be positive about this, I struggle to understand in which bay you were anchored in this pic.
In fact, the Toro position at the horizon suggests that the pic was taken somewhere along the E side of San Pietro island, but that's a stretch of coast that I literally know like the back of my hand, and I can't for the life of me think of a place like it, in that area.
Any chance that the pic is flipped horizontally, maybe?
This chart extract will explain
So, the island in my photo is Isola la Vacca
And the one in JFM's photo is (as he said) Isola del Toro
I don't speak the local language but it looks to me that the names have similar meanings.
We were in Torre Cannai - I think you suggested it would be a good place to anchor.
In fact, it was lovely.
MapisM
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Doh! Yes I did, and yes, now I recognize it.
But I believe it's actually the Toro island also in your photo, at first glance it just appeared to me as more distant (hence my inference that you might have been around S.Pietro).
The Vacca island is a bit larger, has a different profile, a tower on top, and a small islet called Vitello very close to it.
Just as a folkloristic note, Toro, Vacca and Vitello are the Italian for bull, cow and calf respectively!
Hurricane
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Thanks - that now makes sense.Just as a folkloristic note, Toro, Vacca and Vitello are the Italian for bull, cow and calf respectively!
Bouba
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Doh! Yes I did, and yes, now I recognize it.
But I believe it's actually the Toro island also in your photo, at first glance it just appeared to me as more distant (hence my inference that you might have been around S.Pietro).
The Vacca island is a bit larger, has a different profile, a tower on top, and a small islet called Vitello very close to it.
Just as a folkloristic note, Toro, Vacca and Vitello are the Italian for bull, cow and calf respectively!
It’s the origin of the word vaccine....from cowpox
jrudge
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It looks like it because it is!
The islet at the horizon in the 2nd pic is much harder to identify, but I won't spill the beans for a while because I'm curious to check if anyone by now familiar with southern Sardinia can spot it and win a virtual Mars bar...
jrudge
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I thought I was at the end of the thread so replied then read on and found more posts - sorry.
I passed it a week before jfm so I did recognise it !
I passed it a week before jfm so I did recognise it !
Skipper Felice
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This is also my point to this great project from jfm: In 2021 I had a great visit with "Carlo" at the SANLORENZO shipyard at Ameglia. We had some talks about a "small" SL and had the possibility to see the outstanding work of SANLORENZO shipbuilding.
They also mentioned that most of bigger SL are driven by external captains - but for me it's the point, that I will be the owner and I will be the captain conducting the boat.
MapisM
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Gotta love the irony of putting small in brackets, considering that if you're referring to new builds their baby boat is an 86 footer... 
Unless you're looking at the SX range, but aside from the fact that the smaller still is a 76', I'm not sure I'd pay the SL market premium for that type of boat, designed and built just because there's a market demand for it, rather than to build a great boat per se - which is what SL reputation/history (and prices!) is all about.
Unless you're looking at the SX range, but aside from the fact that the smaller still is a 76', I'm not sure I'd pay the SL market premium for that type of boat, designed and built just because there's a market demand for it, rather than to build a great boat per se - which is what SL reputation/history (and prices!) is all about.