We have made it…but Easy Rider didn’t quite follow :-)

25 Jun

Fazziolou, last anchorage on Corsica

25th of June

After around 3 months, 1000 nautical miles around the North of Sardinia and the whole of Corsica and after having surveyed around 350 anchorages (including harbours ) we have now arrived in Santa Teresa Di Gallura, our planned overwintering place until 2019. It has been slightly more exhausting than we had imagined…but you have to go with the weather, which has not always been as predicted, it probably never will…especially not early in the season.

Punta Palazzo with the red rocks of Scandola

Let us start with the end of our story. It is an ending - if watched on a screen - would seem rater far fetched and scripted by a rather poor writer. So here it goes. We had just left our last anchorage on the Corsican Mainland (Cala Fazziolu, near Bonifacio) on our way to Santa Teresa. We were relaxed in sun shine and were motoring in a light breeze. As Easy Rider had done occasionally throughout the trip, she (in marine language boats are addressed as ‘she’) frequently alarmed of not being able to charge the battery. More and more insistently she reminded us of her problem, until the engine stopped in the middle of the Bouches de Bonifacio, the main shipping lane between Corsica and Sardinia. No gentle words brought her back to life and we ghosted for 2 hours towards our destination where a dinghy waited to bring us to our berth. ER clearly had enough and wanted a rest…as did her crew :-).

Passing Isoletto Garganellu in a westerly swell

As we thought, the alternator (battery charger) will need replacement before the arrival of our friend Beth for a weeks cruise around La Maddalena Archipelago.

This will be the last posting and we will be ending with a selection of landscapes, bays, harbours rocks and beaches along our Corsican and Sardinian journey.

We hope you have had some fun following our very small adventures along the way and are tempted to visit perhaps one or the other places sometime in the future.

You (if you are a sailor, or just interested) will be able to read every aspect in more detail in the new 4th edition of the RCC Pilotage Foundation “Corsica and North Sardinia” pilot book. It will be published in spring 2019 (Yes, it is an advert…).

Thank you for following…

all the very best from Madeleine and Stephan and Easy Rider.