Who said the season is ending?

[Robg71]

0.5m... try that in the channel islands, if you have not checked the tides.. brave or foolish man
great stuff
think i need to move to warmer and slightly less taxed lands...

 

[MapisM]

LOL, you're welcome to come for a warmer land taste if you wish, we'll be onboard till the beginning of Dec...
...but I'm afraid you would be disappointed if you expect to pay less taxes anywhere in the Med - not in the civilized part of it, anyway.
Otoh, it's again a matter of how you look at that. I've always thought that I'd be more than glad to pay 10M/year in taxes, and I'm not happy at all to pay much less...!

Re. the shallow anchorage, yes, I understand that in the CI by the time you're back from your swim you would risk to walk on the swim platform, rather than climb its ladder... I'm not envious of that!
Though TBH, the weeds which can be seen in the video are a couple of feet high from the bottom, so the clearance under the keel was more like 1 meter or so.

Oh, and for the records, since (as can be seen at the end of the video) the stern was rather fouled, partly because of the longlasting warm water, after the swim I spent another 20' or so cleaning it, just floating around, without feeling cold at all...!

 

[Robg71]

hmm, jealous

 

[scubaman]

Wow, again seems like another world. Very nicely put togeter vid! Is that shot somewhere around the Maddalena islands (closest hit I got from Google with Saline Bay)?

What is the snaky-thingy 30 secs into the vid?

Indeed very jealous!

 

[MapisM]

Nope K, the spot is just 3.5 NM SE of my home harbour.
"Saline" is the IT for salt pits, of which there were plenty in the past, in many places near the seaside, to actually produce edible salt.
That's where the name of the beach/bay comes from, and the reason why you might find many others.
But "my" spot is the following - we were anchored in the W part of the bay, near the shallow rocky cape, where most of the video was taken:
https://www.google.com/maps/preview#!data=!1m4!1m3!1d2778!2d8.3575138!3d39.0990644!2m1!1e3&fid=7

Oh, and well spot re. the "snaky thingy"! I was wondering if it would have been noticed also without mentioning it beforehand.
It's a small Med Moray. Rather common almost anywhere in the Med, but they are normally a bit shy (in spite of the aggressive look) and tend to stay in some holes, at least in daytime, while this one was happily laying on the top of a rock, in 1m or so of water...
Maybe they also enjoy some late season sunbathing, who knows?

 

[Deleted User YDKXO]

Nice video
And respect to you MapisM for nice anchoring with 0.5m of clear water under the keel. I always think teeth-sucking skippers who need minimum of 4m or whatever are a little bit wimpy. In my book, unless you're sometimes sucking some sand into the genset you need to move a bit closer to the edge Chapeau to you

That rather depends on whether, like Mapism, you've got a sodding great big lump of keel to hit the seabed first rather than a delicate and hugely expensive propellor

 

[MapisM]

While I agree that this can make a difference in terms of potential damages, actually my anchoring habits have always been pretty much the same, also with my previous planing boats. Imho, it's rather a matter of knowing the area well enough (or not).
I would have never anchored in that spot, if I had not already seen the bottom during some previous swims with a mask.
That's way more accurate than any paper chart you might have onboard (let alone - heaven forbid - electronic ones...!)

 

[Pinnacle]

the stern was rather fouled, partly because of the longlasting warm water, after the swim I spent another 20' or so cleaning it, just floating around, without feeling cold at all...!

Wanna come over and do mine?

 

[MapisM]

LOL, I guess a dry wetsuit could take care of the cold water.
But how can you see where to scrub, with a 10 inches or so visibility...?