Friday 4 October 2019

Our friendly neighbourhood fisherman was at it again this morning while we had breakfast, although we didn’t see him catch anything today.

Much of today (and probably tomorrow) was taken up with preparations for our next guests, who are arriving tomorrow evening.  There seems to be endless cleaning to do, I’ll not bore you with the details.

The wind has still been blowing strongly for most of the day, and as such there does not seem to have been much action from the Luna Rossa Americas Cup base. I think  that they might have got the boat out, I thought I could see its mast in the distance, but nothing more.  The sailing press say that the next likely events are the boat being towed, to check out the foiling process, before they actually fit the sails and go for it. At least the day was enlivened by coverage of the British boat’s launch.  Sir Ben Ainsley’s machine looks rather different to Luna Rossa.

They were harvesting the olives from trees by the marina office

A big achievement today was to finalise our plans for where we will leave the boat for the winter. We have been in dialogue with various boatyards over the last few weeks, and have now made our selection and then booked the necessary flights home.  It is good to have this all resolved.

After all the domestic activity, we decided to go out to dinner. We have eaten all of the relevant food on board, and it was either eat out or walk the same distance and then buy something, return and cook it.  As we walked down the promenade, we heard the Italian Nation Anthem being played. We realised that it was sunset, and we were approaching the Naval Base.  They went through the whole flag lowering ceremony, complete with whistles, once the National Anthem had finished.

Distance covered today	0	nautical miles
Trip distance covered	400	nautical miles
Distance covered 2019	1453	nautical miles

Steve (and Tricia)