Tag Archive for: Mediterranean

Sailing in Sicily day 3 and 4

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Day 3: Sailing in the Aeolians Islands, Sicily with Spartivento Yacht Charter Company Today we decided to spend the morning in Panarea’s main village San Pietro and then sail later to Stromboli. The little Island of Panarea is really REALLY nice. When you go ashore either take no money or if you have lots of […]

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Number 1 Sailing Vacation Spot in the World

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We went sailing in the Aeolian Islands, Sicily last week with Spartivento Yacht Charter Company. We’ve been fortunate to sail in just about every sailing vacation destination in the world and so people always ask me where is the best place. Until now, I have always responded with “each one is a 10”. But after visiting Sicily last week, I have to say: hands down, without a doubt, we are now rating the Aeolian Islands in Sicily as the number one best place on planet earth to take a sailing vacation.

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Bareboat Charter Athens Day 2

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Bareboat Charter in Athens Greece with The Moorings Sunday Day 2 Aigina – Perdika – Hydra Our plan for the week was to get going early each day so as to explore on the way then make it into the stay over port early to explore further. Our first early explore was the village of […]

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Bareboat Charter Athens Day 3

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Monday Day 3 of 7 Hydra – Epimioni – Dhokos — Spetsai 6:30 am – now this is the thing to do. Get up super early, leave port and drift the boat about 1 mile out and have breakfast looking at a Greek town off the back deck of the boat. Here was our view […]

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Bareboat Charter Athens Day 4

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Tuesday – Day 4 of 7 days sailing with The Moorings in Greece:  Spetses – Poros We woke in the morning to find that the wind had swung as predicted by Pocket GRiB. We’d made a good choice on which side of the key to Med moor. Sam On-The-Rocks went back to town to buy his […]

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Bareboat Charter Athens Day 5

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Day five of seven: Sailing out from Athens with The Moorings on a Leopard 3900 Catamaran Wednesday Poros to Russian Bay to Epidavros When motoring out of Poros you can’t emotionally go faster than 2 knots because the view of the town is so fantastic, especially the iconic clock tower. Here are some more sights […]

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Bareboat Charter Athens Day 6

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Day six of seven: Sailing out from Athens with The Moorings on a Leopard 3900 Catamaran Thursday Epidavros to Ancient Theater to Vathi Clang Clang Clang go the Saxons to wake everyone’s ass up. We gotta get to the Ancient Epidavros Theater. Well at least that was the intention. The crew was dancing pretty hard […]

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