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| Cavtat Croatia - beautiful small town |
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| Crkva Sv. Matije, near Kotor Monetenegro |
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| very good restaurant in Kotor Cesarica |
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| our sailing yacht |
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| entering the port of Brindisi IT after a looooong night |
Freitag, 1. Juni 2018
sail away in pictures
sail away - join the crew
My first sailing trip took me from Dubrovnik in Croatia to Brindisi in Italy.
It took one week. We stopped in Montenegro, Albania and Italy.
Lets start from the very first idea of this trip. A friend of mine has a sailing yacht that had to be moved as the rent in the harbour of Venice was too expensive. So he decided to bring the ship to a cheaper place somewhere south in Italy. As the trip takes several weeks he asked friends to join the crew. Five friends including him as the captain/skipper sailed from Dubrovnik with several stops to Brindisi.
The initial route was: Dubrovnik (Croatia), Kotor (Montenegro), Bari (Italy), Monopoli (IT) and Brindisi (IT). According to the wheater and the time we had left we ajusted the plan each day. That was actually very interesting. The whole crew planned the journey each evening. Most of the days we did not have enough wind to sail so we had to swich on the engine. In the middle of the week we realised that the wheater is going to change and a big thunder storm is going to hit us. We decided to change the route and sail/cruise further directly from Bar (Montenegro) to Durres (Albania). That was quite exhausting to be on sea the whole day long. In Durres we stayed for two days and explored the city and bought a lot of food and water.
In the evening of the third day we started our journey to Italy. One hour after we left the thunderstorm begun. Luky as we were the storm stayed on the albanian coast. So we did not have any rain.
We had two teams to work in shifts during that long night. 3h working 3h sleeping. It took around 12h to reach the italian coast.
Enough routeplanning, geopraphy and technical details. It is not possible to describe the feeling you have when you are sailing. - Freedom! Peace! Relaxation! but well I gonna let pictures do the rest.
It took one week. We stopped in Montenegro, Albania and Italy.
Lets start from the very first idea of this trip. A friend of mine has a sailing yacht that had to be moved as the rent in the harbour of Venice was too expensive. So he decided to bring the ship to a cheaper place somewhere south in Italy. As the trip takes several weeks he asked friends to join the crew. Five friends including him as the captain/skipper sailed from Dubrovnik with several stops to Brindisi.
The initial route was: Dubrovnik (Croatia), Kotor (Montenegro), Bari (Italy), Monopoli (IT) and Brindisi (IT). According to the wheater and the time we had left we ajusted the plan each day. That was actually very interesting. The whole crew planned the journey each evening. Most of the days we did not have enough wind to sail so we had to swich on the engine. In the middle of the week we realised that the wheater is going to change and a big thunder storm is going to hit us. We decided to change the route and sail/cruise further directly from Bar (Montenegro) to Durres (Albania). That was quite exhausting to be on sea the whole day long. In Durres we stayed for two days and explored the city and bought a lot of food and water.
In the evening of the third day we started our journey to Italy. One hour after we left the thunderstorm begun. Luky as we were the storm stayed on the albanian coast. So we did not have any rain.
We had two teams to work in shifts during that long night. 3h working 3h sleeping. It took around 12h to reach the italian coast.
Enough routeplanning, geopraphy and technical details. It is not possible to describe the feeling you have when you are sailing. - Freedom! Peace! Relaxation! but well I gonna let pictures do the rest.
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