Our plan for sailing Europe in the Spring of 2021 was again halted by Covid but the arrival of Covid vaccines started to curb the 3rd wave. In June we saw Europe open up to international travellers. We quickly booked tickets on a ‘Covid tested’ flight leaving from JFK, with our vaccination certificates in hand, and arrived in Rome with no quarantine requirements.
This was the start of a 1,700 nautical mile journey on Chinook visiting over 50 ports and anchorages along the way. We sailed Sicily, Albania, the boot of Italy and the whole west coasts of Italy and parts of southern France (marked in red on the chart below). The summer heat was relentless. It was “groundhog” day each day, sunny and hot, hot hot but we had the ocean to jump into for some brief relief. The marina costs matched the sky-high temperatures. But it was a great journey.
We spent most of our trip in Italian waters which eliminated the need for the Covid tests and paperwork that accompany traveling to a different country which overly complicated our 2020 trip.
Visit our ‘Summer 2021’ blogs which are listed in descending date order.
Fall 2020 outlined in BLACK BL
| June 20 – 23 | Rome | Italy | |
| June 32 – July 1 | Marina di Ragusa | Sicily | Prepping Chinook |
| July 1 | Porto Palo | Sicily | Anchored |
| July 2 – 4 | Siracusa | Sicily | Yacht Club Lakkios |
| July 4 – 5 | Rocella Ionica | Italy | Overnight passage |
| July 5 – 7 | Rocella Ionica | Italy | |
| July 7 | Crotone | Italy | |
| July 8 – 10 | Santa Maria di Leuca | Italy | |
| July 10 – 12 | Sarande | Albania | Moored at Government Docks |
| July 12 | Othonio Island | Greece | Anchored |
| July 13 | Santa Maria di Leuca | Italy | |
| July 14 | Gallipoli | Italy | Commercial docks |
| July 15 | Crotone | Italy | |
| July 16 – 19 | Rocella Ionica | Italy | |
| July 19 | Scilla | Italy | Mooring Ball |
| July 20 | Lipari, | Aeolian Islands | Yacht Harbour Lipari |
| Juy 21 | Salina | Aeolian Islands | Anchored |
| July 22 | Stromboli | Aeolian Islands | Mooring Ball |
| July 23 | Cetraro | Italy | |
| July 24 | Scario | Italy | |
| July 25 | Pisciotta | Italy | Marina di Pisciotta |
| July 26 | Agropoli | Italy | |
| July 27 | Amalfi | Italy | |
| July 28 | Fiorde di Crappola | Italy | Anchored |
| July 29 | Sorrento | Italy | |
| July 30 – Aug 1 | Napoli | Italy | |
| August 1 | Gaeta | Italy | Base Nautica |
| August 2 | Anzio | Italy | |
| August 3 | Roma | Italy | Porti di Roma |
| August 4 | Riva di Triano | Italy | |
| August 5 | Port Ercole | Italy | Marina di Presidi |
| August 6 | Punta Alla | Italy | Banchina Centrale 21 |
| August 7 | Portoferrio | Italy | Anchored |
| August 8 | Calade Medici | Italy | Marina Cela de Medici |
| August 9 – 11 | Pisa | Italy | Porto di Pisa |
| August 11 | Lerici | Italy | Anchored South side of Castle |
| August 12 | Chiavari | Italy | |
| August 13 – 15 | Genova | Italy | |
| August 15 | Capo di Noli | Italy | Anchored |
| August 16 | Capo Santa Corse | Italy | Anchored |
| August 17 | San Remo | Italy | |
| August 18 | Menton- Garavan | France | |
| August 19 | Saint Jean Cap Ferret | France | |
| August 20 -22 | Villefranche | France | Anchored in Rade di Villefranche |
| August 22 – 24 | Cannes | France | |
| August 24 | Baie de Briande | France | Anchored |
| August 25 | Isles de Porquerolles | France | Anchored |
| August 26 – 27 | Toulon | France | |
| August 28 | Bandol | France | Anchored in Baie de Bandol |
| August 29 – 30 | Ciotat | France | Anchored in Baie de la Vierge |
| August 31 – Sept 2 | Marseille | France | Moored at CNTL |
| Sept 2 | Mouillage de Corteau | France | Anchored |
| Sept 3 – 11 | Port Napoleon | France | Prepping Chinook for winter |