The posts for this part now start with a sunset and end with day shots, since the pattern in the Maddalena Islands is to arrive and anchor at the end of the day after the day tour boats have left (and you have the anchorage to yourself). Have a wonderful night of a cove to yourself, get up, and over breakfast, around 9:30, the onslaught of another day’s worth of daytrippers arrive.
We left Asinara Island with 50 miles to do to get to the Maddalenas – the other marine sanctuary in Sardinia. We were waiting for the winds to calm (toward the Maddalenas they were still blowing in the 30’s) and the seas to calm down (we already had two choppy sails and we didn’t need another).
The wind now was almost too light, so we motored for a bit here and there, but the seas were calm and it was a nice sail. It got a bit sporty as expected when we got to the islands (the wind & seas build as they get squeezed between Sardinia to the south and Corsica to the north) and it was blowing mid-20’s, but we were prepared. The anchorage I had picked was empty (a boat seemed to be chasing people out), and we quickly realized that it was unsuitable with the winds and swell. Luckily I had a backup picked just a mile around the corner. We dropped anchor among four other boats and relaxed.
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