Sailing in the Mediterranean

I doubt it, but if you're the type of costs on the ground, using its engine to leave the Navy, once the sails are all similar, and only use the engine to enter a port, then you will be disappointed. There are a lot of cars in the medical field

The wind tends to blow along the coast of Spain, is east or west along the Costa del Sol, and then when you think you have the wind on the beam, just around the corner, which will go up on the nose again. Actually, not quitecorrect because for 10-20 miles north of the southeast, the wind blows from east-west strike. Even if the wind blows, does not usually begin before 12 clock, and sometimes later.

So what to do to hurry the Balearic Islands, because we discovered that the winds around the islands are favorable winds for sailing. Often you will receive twenty good in Palma de Mallorca, Menorca and Ibiza, and there are many good anchorages and ports to remain on the ground a. This is a great cruiseEspecially in the north-east of Mallorca, Menorca and most.

Most people think of the Med as it is stable or only a breeze, but it can blow as low as it is Devon and Cornwall. The difference is that the wind coming from nowhere, and up to a force 7-8 in half an hour. And neither heaven nor the Barometers give you an idea very much.

Caught in an internal

We are very lucky in that sense, but again we were hit badly. Uscleverly side was anchored less popular than an island in the inland sea of La Manga. Everything was good, the first night and the next day, and if the wind had to turn around and come from the East, I think, but not until the next day. 8:00 against the clock winds from the west is gone, and we expect nothing to happen - the nights are often silent. Within 30 minutes the wind had gone not only throughout the north, but blew a total of six drives us to the island!

UsDo not go around the other side, because the water was not deep enough, so we did the port, the canal that leads from the inland sea to go. That would have been easy except that the lights marking the entrance to the canal work, and when we arrived, there was dark.

That was not all due to silting, had to mark a channel to channel, and this was a dog-leg through cables to connect some buoys marked - red and white you might think.Worse, it was only a white light, and a pair of red at the beginning of the funnel, as they were, to the channel. So naturally we could not see and just had our walk toward the wall until I saw customs, suddenly in the sky apart Stick.

Now we are so close to the rope skeg mark channel around the prisoner, but luckily slipped quite easily. Even if we in the Navy, we had a job as a dock, the wind was so strong that weis left out of the Dock - the only area of the stage of the fuel, which has not made the man who, when he arrived the next morning.
We have now learned that the Spaniards, especially with good lighting and placing buoys, and often does not bother those who are injured to be replaced. driving at night should be reserved for long passages at sea.

So, as elsewhere, unexpected things can happen when you're sailing in the Mediterranean, but sees some great venuessome people and some pretty big unless you're sailing, wherever they go - do not include the land south!

Now we spent six seasons in the Mediterranean cruises, gradually asking east of Estepona, and many people:

"The Mediterranean is the ideal place to surf?"

John Hartley