Monday 2 September 2019

We woke early and having checked the weather forecast, concluded that the weather was good enough to get up the remainder of the western side of Sardinia. It was going to be testing, but hopefully not too much.  I think Chris and Giorgia were not expecting to be woken by the engine starting and the preparation for departure.

The conditions were fruity, and it was a long slog up the coast of Sardinia, where there are no places of refuge available to us.  If the weather had got too bad, we would have had to return back to where we had started from.

We went past the shallow Fornelli channel between Sardinia and the Asinara islands to the north.  In flat conditions it might have been possible for us to go through this shallow channel, but not today. We pressed on and eventually got to the very northern tip of Asinara and started to turn to the east, and off the wind.

After this it was a relatively short distance back to Cala Olivia.  We found a vacant mooring buoy and stopped for the night a few hundred yards from a small beach and village.

Distance covered today	46.00	nautical miles
Trip distance covered	75.00	nautical miles
Distance covered 2019	1234.00	nautical miles
Steve (and Tricia)