Putting up at Genoa

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Crew on overnight

Set off putting the main and the Genoa up. We sailed most of the afternoon and into the evening about moving along at an average 7 knots. Our shifts for the night established. Page, 6-10, Kristine, 10pm-2am, Alan 12am-4am, Mike- 2am-6am, Ken-4am-8am, & Page-6am-10am.

On my shift, around 11pm, the moon started to rise. There was only one boat in sight and the moon rose behind it. It started out brilliant orange and finally settled to its lovely bright self. By this time, we had only the main up and motored through the remainder of the night. We arrived at Ponza harbor on Ponza Island around 7:30-8am, or so. As we approached the marina, we ran out of diesel, put up the Genoa, and put the 2.5 jerry can of fuel in. Our first stop at the harbor was the fuel dock and we filled it up. 300 Euros for 120 liters plus the 9 liters in the jerry can.


Mike helping Page with Clovehitch lesson

Pontine Islands and Overnights

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We found one bar/café that had Wifi, but it was not strong or consistent enough to update my blog, but we did catch up with some email while enjoying a glass of wine. Had leftovers from the prior day’s market and then popcorn for treat.

On Thursday morning, we did our usual dockside showers and a bit of laundry. Alan hauled some fresh water from the town’s public water hose so we could do this. Before leaving for our 2nd overnight, we picked up a case of beer, more water, and slices of pizza for the road.

Porto Giglio – Last of the Tuscan Islands

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On Wednesday, we arrived at Porto Giglio, last of the beer drunk, needing showers and finding that at 4pm, all stores are closed (what they had of them) and the visitors pontoon was crowded with small motor yachts. Plenty of room on their concrete quay so we tied up. No electric and the water is not drinkable so we hauled several containers full for our drinking water. Alan made a deal with the Ormeggiatori (Italian for Capitanaire) that he would take our 2.5 gal tank of gas we DID NOT NEED, in exchange for our berth fee for the night. We had to leave on Thursday by 2pm because some ferry’s were expected for the quay. No problem. We got the empty tank back and filled it with Diesel as our back up plan for running out of fuel. (later proved useful as we ran out of gas heading into our next marina after our overnight motor)