On my way back to Kos
With a last view to lovely Cefalù we left the most western destination on our trip.
Some more relaxing days at the Aeolian islands for one week before the long distance of approximately close to 1.000 nautical miles back home to Kos will start.
It’s time to leave Italy as it gets more crowded every day. And finally, summer started with nice temperatures even at night.
The Sicilian Stallion
Today we finally arrived close to our trips end point after sailing through the busy Straits of Messina early this morning with the predicted northbound current.
The water temperature reached a comfortable 20 degrees and Pippo played his Rambo like role as the Sicilian Stallion equipped with a knife freeing my starboard propeller of a fishing line.
The next day trips to Capo d‘Orlando will be nice short ones after all these long day cruises over the past days.
A whole marina just for me
Originally I planned to go to Marina dell‘Etna today. As they didn’t answer my mooring request I booked through the Navily app a place just below Reggio in the Straits of Messina.
What a surprise: Lady Soul is the only boat in the marina. Not everything is finished yet, but nice and clean. And we got a warm welcome and a lot of helping hand (as a big discount on their regular pricelist :)
Tough Day
We stayed for 2 nights in Crotone to wait for a change of wind direction. So this morning we left early also because of a noisy techno party and sailed towards Rocella Ionica.
The wind was nice with 5 to 7 Beaufort but the old swell from the day before coming from the wrong direction made it quite bumpy.
It was Pippos first time to this kind of waters but he stayed brave.
Tomorrow we will reach Sicily where Pippo was born- back to the roots.