A great place to rest in Italy’s foot

With an eventful overnight crossing behind us and a dead engine in front of us, we ended up spending three days and nights in Roccella Ionica. Well, really in the marina – Porto Delle Grazie Marina di Roccella. The town was a forty minute walk away. Location-wise, you can think of it as the ball […]

Exploring the heel of Italy’s boot

If you ever find yourself in the Puglia region of Italy, specifically it’s southern most area (the heel), here are four cities we recommend worth a visit… We highly recommend the anchorage in Otranto. We decided we liked it much better than if we had been able to secure a spot in the marina. And, […]

Brindisi – our port of entry into Italy

We landed in Brindisi after our first successful overnight crossing from Montenegro. We all felt like we had jet lag after a long international flight and planned to stay there for a couple of days and nights to recoup. The day we arrived we had to go into town so Conor could get us checked […]

Our second overnight crossing

A week after our first overnight crossing, we performed our second. I still need to report on things we did and saw in Italy in between, but I wanted to post this while it was still fresh… We hadn’t planned on another overnight crossing, but a day or so beforehand, it became the best option. […]

Our first overnight crossing

It was time. Time to make our longest passage planned for the year – a crossing of the Adriatic Sea from Montenegro to the east coast of Italy. We had recently arrived back in what felt like our “home” port of Porto Montenegro after a pretty easy 6-7 hour passage from Dubrovnik. The only adventure […]

Run out of Venice

We were chased out by the mosquitos. Also the mugginess. But mostly the mosquitoes. Our marina location was quite marshy with much still water, so we couldn’t sit outside or even open the windows that don’t have nets (which is most of them). Conor was on his own for a week with no one else […]

Our view of Venice

We enjoyed a beautiful, calm 7 1/2 motor sail over to Venice from Novigrad. We had great winds and a helpful current to help us race across. After hanging out in the very busy channels of the area, we were escorted by a marina dinghy to where our berth would be on the island of […]