Brindabella

Vessel Name: Brindabella
Vessel Make/Model: Najad 405
Hailing Port: Suffolk Yacht Harbour, UK
Crew: Simon, Fiona and Daisy the dog!
About: Simon and Fiona had Brindabella built in Sweden before she was launched in 2009. They sailed her from Sweden back to Suffolk in the UK. They are now exploring the Mediterranean.
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24 April 2024

Le Grazie

Position update: At anchor in Le Grazie

23 April 2024

Porto di Pisa

Position update: Porto di Pisa

22 April 2024

Marina Cala de Medici

Position update: Marina Cala de Medici

18 April 2024

Isola d’Elba – Porto Azzurro

Position update: Isola d’Elba – Porto Azzurro

15 April 2024

Porto Santo Stefano

We had to leave Giannutri early the next morning as the wind direction changed and we would have been pushed onto the rocks. The weather was due to change. There was a Gale Force 7 with gusts forecast on the VHF radio, from the French Riviera and down across Corsica. It sounded like the Mistral. In the [...]

13 April 2024

Isola di Giannutri

We have now reached the island of Giannutri which is one of the Tuscan islands. It is wild and exposed. The island forms a natural crescent shape, shallow enough to anchor close to the shore, otherwise it is too deep. There is a little harbour where the ferry lands. We anchored quite close to some rocks, [...]

11 April 2024

Riva di Traiano

We motored round from Rome and the sea still had remnants of swell. Three and a half hours later, we reached the marina at Traiano. This is a large modern well protected marina with cafes, restaurants and chandleries.

09 April 2024

Porto di Roma

At 8.30am, we slipped our lines at Nettuno and headed towards the port of Rome. It was warm, but the air was muggy with little wind. On the VHF radio, we heard a Force 7 to 8 gale warning for Corsica, broadcast in Italian, French and English. Simon had already seen on the forecast an increase in swell [...]

08 April 2024

Nettuno

It was a calm day with a light wind, so we motorsailed from Ponza to the marina at Nettuno. We had been here last year and had to watch the depth at the marina entrance. In one patch the depth sounder recorded 2.7m, we draw 2.1m. On the approach to the marina, we prepared to tie up, alongside rather [...]

05 April 2024

Isola di Ponza

After a brief walk around Ventotene, we had breakfast in a café and bought a few food items in a little grocery shop. It was calm at sea, and we saw an army helicopter overhead, that did a fly by and circled the boat twice.

Golfe de Fos

12 September 2020
Simon
The Golfe du Lion can have some atrocious weather. This is mainly from the tramontana in the west and the mistral in the east. However, since these winds are from the north, the sea conditions are not so bad around the coast. It can be a different story further out at sea and we have seen forecasts with swell exceeding 3m. During our time in the western edge we have seen three tramontana winds pass through blowing F7 to F8. In winter they can be stronger than this.

Today, was very calm and we took the opportunity to make a big hop of nearly 60 nautical miles. This took us over to the eastern side of the Golfe du Lion. We went into the Golfe de Fos which is a medium sized bay in the north east edge. Around the outer bay there are many petrochemical plants but at the southern end there is wonderful sandy spit. This encloses a small bay which was ideal for anchoring. When we arrived, it was a Saturday night and there were around a dozen other yachts at anchor but there was plenty of space.



There was a wreck of a yacht on the spit. It was marked on the charts and we thought it was an ancient wreck but it was a modern yacht that had gone aground and had been left there.



It turned out to be a great anchorage with no swell and a long sandy beach. Just don't look north to the petrochemical site!



Time: 9:30 hours Miles: 58nm Total Time: 60:30 hours Total Miles: 340nm
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