Sardegna I ⚓: La Pelosa

1 day and 11 hours. That's how long, or short, it took us to sail the 196 nautical miles from Menorca to the crystal clear waters of La Pelosa, Sardinia. I don't think we have ever sailed this fast for such a long distance. Boy, were we happy with our decision to stop in Menorca and leave the next morning. Except for the lack of sunshine, the conditions were perfect.

Again we were sailing at 7-8 knots during the day. While at night it calmed down a bit, which was great. Although, now I think about it, it might have been a little calm at some point wind wise. As the waves were still there and when I got ready to relieve Bart from his first night watch, he's a true brother 🤺, it took me a little too long to get ready so when I got on deck, I felt nauseous. Since I try to continue to eat and drink when I feel sick, I fed the fish not once, not twice but 5 times 😅 Let's focus on the fact I felt a lot better afterwards and for the rest of the duration of the trip.

When we almost made it to Sardinia we wanted to start the engine. We had to pass through a very narrow opening. So we wanted to have the engine running just in case. Except, it wouldn't start. We hadn't had any sun the entire day, so it might have been a battery issue or it might have had something to do with the start motor. After Bart did a couple of more attempts he instructed me to tap the start motor and voila, next time it did start right away! Luckily... (since then we haven't had the same issue).

To go through the passage safely we had to follow the beakens from one to the other. Bart did the steering, skip, and I looked at the map and the beakens. We made it through beautifully and arrived at the stunning anchorage. Somehow, the water is even more beautiful and clear than we already had on the Balearic Islands😱 I thought about going in right away but it started raining and getting dark. Instead we celebrated with an anker biertje and another gorgeous sunset.

We slept like little babies and woke up late. Since it was gray and raining for almost the entire day we had a lazy morning and afternoon. I finished our second 1000 pages Ken Follett book and Bart watched his new tv show before we had a delicious Easter lunch and watched our anchor tv show Heroes. When the sun finally started to peek through a little bit, we went for our swim aka shower! It was pretty cold but too pretty not to go in. After checking the weather we have decided to go as far north as we can tomorrow. We hope to make it to the north of Corsica to use the next favorable weather window to sail to Bart Sr in Imperia🥳Lue lisää