Entries from 'Sailing'

Na Zdravie!

After a one-day rest back in Bari, we got up at the crack of dawn and made our way to the Bari airport to fly to Prague. Darold’s roommate from the time he lived in Australia was living in Prague and we planned to visit him as well as rent a car and drive to…

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La Famiglia

We took a bus, a train and another bus to the town of Campobasso (in the Molise region), where Darold’s Italian family lives. Darold’s grandmother (on his mother’s side) was born in the nearby town of San Giuliano del Sannio.  His great grandfather had emigrated from Italy to the United States but had taken his…

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Bari Style

  Our three day passage from Siracusa to Bari was relatively uneventful except for one evening on our last night.  I was on watch and noticed that there was a blip on the radar ahead of us but I couldn’t see any boat lights.  I kept a close watch monitoring the radar and then suddenly…

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Sicilia

We set off from Vulcano Island together with Three Sheets, leaving the smell of sulfur behind us.  We were headed for mainland Sicily, but first we needed to make it through the Messina Straits.  There are a lot of stories about the straits, beginning with Homer’s Odyssey in which he describes how Odysseus’ ships are…

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Vulcano Island

Vulcano Island is part of the Aeolian Island chain, near Sicily.  The Aeolian Islands are where Odysseus, on his quest to return home, met the God of Wind – Aeolus – who promised to help him return home to Ithaca.  He took all of the contrary winds and put them in a bag, which Odysseus…

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