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Date: 3rd May 2011

Finally in the water ... Miaplacidus launched just before easter 2011 / Dominica experience
Right now I am going from Palermo to Naples on a big ferryboat in a confortable cabin positioned right on the front of the ship! Amazing view on the night sea and the breaking wave noise is just so close. I think next time I will ask for the same cabin number 10100 :) Yesterday I came back from a weekend in Ustica on Miaplacidus with a nice family guests. We had a wonderfull morning cruising 4 hours between 8 and 12 knots speed! Ustica has is special energy with the little and small village on the "port" (open to east!) and the blue grottos around the island. Was a nice Easter spent in a relaxing atmosphere. The summer season is defenetely started now. The Boat is in the water again, varnished and well maintained with a professional make-up. The weather should quickly improve with a drastical change to very hot temperatures... now still raining. Not a big adventure compared to some experience around... once in dominca island (littler antilles) I had a very intense experience. We were sailing during the night from an Island to the following, passing Dominica in between, I had to decide were was better to pass the island, and i choosed the north.. wrong theorically. Normally I pass the downwind side (more protected), but from up wind was a better angle for reaching the other island and we went north side, open to the ocean waves. I remembered also that on the north of dominica there are some population with almost no contact with the modern civility.. and that made it so fashinating. Was very hard to steer in the north coast, the rudder was very hard to maintan and many quick turns were needed in order to maintain the direction! .. being more friends onboard was easy to make turns. Then I was looking on the top of the cliff, with a total moonlight making green the forest, and I felt like being watched from some tribal people in the wide and high forest. The feeling was of plenty happyness and curiosity about how was going to visit this place up in the north cliff of Dominica. That was happening about 6 years ago. Soon I go back sailing, probably the 6th and i don't know yet where we will go from Palermo, to be decided..

From Blog: Mediterranean Islands

Date: 22nd February 2011

thanks!
Great to read your comment. I wish to be in touch with more people and spread out about sailing in our free way ... i did also a facebook page which is "Miaplacidus Sailboat" with many pics. :)

From Blog: Mediterranean Islands