No Cuff Too Tough.....

Muddling my way around middle age on the sea...

07 November 2024 | Lagos
17 August 2024 | Cascais, Portugal.
21 July 2024 | Muros, Galicia, Spain.
10 June 2024 | Dun Loaghaire Marina
30 December 2023 | Katoomba, Blue Mountains, NSW, Australia
11 June 2023 | Kerrera Marina
25 September 2022
27 July 2022
30 May 2022 | Horta, Island of Faial, Azores
23 April 2022 | Mediterranean Sea
13 March 2022 | Aguadulce, Andalucía, Spain
31 March 2021 | Perth, Western Australia
30 August 2020 | Ferragudo
02 July 2020 | Valencia, Spain
15 October 2019 | Valencia Marr Marina
22 September 2019 | Calasetta
08 September 2019 | Siracusa Grand Harbour, Sicily
20 August 2019 | Mykonos, Greece

Sicily to Sardinia

22 September 2019 | Calasetta
Bobby Murdoch | bit cloudy.........
Parked up in a wee town called Calasetta as I write this, waiting for some good weather to take me across to Majorca and onto the final leg of my journey for this year, it's a quiet wee fishing/tourist town that has obviously seen better days, so, much like my home town of Girvan, apart from they don't have an Asda! And.....I know that some people that read this will never believe me but......there's way more dog poo on the streets here!! No shit, or actually...lots of shit!


Calasetta.....looks just like Girvan eh??

Looks like I'll get away tomorrow in the late afternoon or Tuesday morning off to sunny Spain, I need to see the local coastguard to check out of the country but they haven't been open over the weekend so hopefully they'll be open tomorrow morning, otherwise I'm offski anyway, nobody really seems that fussed, unless of course you turn up in a dinghy from north Africa, then they get all sorts of excited about it!

Yesterday, Saturday, was exciting for all the wrong reasons, I knew the wind was to get up, so I nipped into town for some supplies beforehand, but the wind turned up while I was in the bakers, ha-ha!, I got smashed coming back out to the boat, kept the bread dry though......spent the rest of the day on anchor watch just in case I started to drag as the 20kt forecast underestimated it a bit and it was howling at 45kts most of the afternoon, glad I was here and not out on the water though.

Ok, so since I last havered on here, I have been to.......

Taormina: this was my second stop after leaving Syracuse, I anchored overnight at Augusta on the way, big industrial port so no photos, I was going to spend a day at Taormina but it was absolutely "pishing doon", came in in the evening in the middle of a thunder storm, got tossed about all night when the wind veered and the swell came into the anchorage and when I got up and it was still hammering with rain, I thought, "bollocks to that!" and carried on North.


Taormina, never looked like this when I was there, it was pishing doon!


Next round of thunderstorms coming in, gin palaces getting hammered too!

Played dodge the ferries transiting the straits of Messina which is is wee bit of water between the Italian mainland and Sicily and anchored off the beach in Scilla just North of the Straits, with the sun turning up again, everything back as it should be...nice!


Scilla and sunshine...


Scilla from the boat

Next was the Ile de Vulcano...which is, funnily enough, a Volcano, busiest place for boats I have been to so far but for obvious reasons, you can walk up to the crater which is fantastic, and the local Pizza is tremendous.


Popular place the old Vulcano.....


Anchorage from the top of the Volcano


Stayed in Vulcano for a couple of days then headed for Cefalu, back on the North coast of Sicily, another tourist hot spot, not so many boats though, there is an old fort on top of a big old hill you can go up to and an old town with wee cobbled streets, 10 million tourists and a lot of Ice Cream places....loved it.


Cefalu, I'm the anchored boat nearest the top otf the photo


The old town......and a big church!


Inside of said big church..

Had a few days at sea to get to Sardinia, first stop was a beach just North of Cape Carbonara, water was so clear, no fishing allowed, so heaps of fish under the boat, I could hear then laughing at me as if they knew I was a shite fisherman!


Cape Carbonara, only boat there!

Had an overnight stop at Perda Longa the next day, another beach, I have to say, the Italians are a good looking people, I was getting worried I was going to get thrown off the beach for not being good looking enough, and for being the only guy on the beach that wasn't wearing speedo's! got away with it though....


Perda Longa...

And so to Calasetta, waiting for the weather and looking forward to getting to Spain.

"Oh this year I'm off to sunny Spain,
Y Viva Espana"

Remember that song? Haha, I cant get it out of my head!!


Sunrise....


Sunset....

See you in Spain........


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Vessel Name: Confidence
Vessel Make/Model: Tayana37
Hailing Port: Brisbane
Crew: Bobby
About: Freelance Good Egg🥚
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