Not drown yet...

I have hoped to write this blog more regularly, but it was quite exhausting.

On Wednesday we made it into Porto Villaputzu in the early afternoon, unfortunately a lot of engine was necessary. FL is quite okay on the tack, but if you need to make some distance (which was my main mistake) you can't go of course 60° just to make a bit of sailing.

First conclusion, trips in the area would have been better, but okay, the lwarning curve is steep indeed.

Anyway, as we needed some bread for the next days P&I had a sweaty walk into the city of Villaputzu, nice beach along, but the city itself seems to be a retirement- & vacationhome-assembly. Google knows nothing about openingtimes, so we made some extra kilometers, but with a little refreshment here and there it was doable.

Very nice dinner in the restaurant opposite the marina, I've been here with Barbara in June on our way with the rentalcar to Arbatax (where the boat is on dock for the winter). 

Thursday brought us finally some northely winds, first 8-10 knots, which we couldn't use for sailing as they were from dead behind and the swell from the days before where exactly 40° from port with waves up to 2 meters... well the wind had his time to plaz with the water the days before.

When the wind increased above 15 knots I decided to lift the sails and give it a go for a couple of hours at least. It worked well on one side, but not on the other. So some more enginehours collected.

We anchored in the very nice bay of Villasimius just west of Cape Carbonaras.

Quite a thunderstorm in the night made things intresting again, but with 50m chain out, there was no problem, still, quite sleepless. But the distant lightning set a beautiful scenery.

Fridaymorning brought a quick rainshower and we used the light winds to go to our destination Cagliari. Forecast showed 5-6bft (17-25kts) (×2-10%=km/h) on the nose for today (Saturday) which we actually have right now.

Marina del Sole is well protected behind a labyrinth of wavebreakers, but it's a shitplace like rarely seen before.  but OK, i will stay only 3 nights🙄

Today we turned the boat around (mainly cleaning) and P& I made an extensive trip to the city of Cagliary which absolutely has its nice spots. Quute some tourist-masses, no wonder, there's a big cruiseship spitting out it's passengers almost every day.

Paul & Dick will leave early morning, and my wife Barbara will arrive in the evening. 

between that times i will probably do some minor works... something breaks every day (right Fred?) so never a dull moment... 

would love you to leave some comments, so I know i am not writting this for Eugen and myself only..

Hope for more sailing next week.

See you soon

B