Imperia/Lecchiore I🏡⛵

Only 90 nautical miles separated us from Bart's dad who lives close to Imperia. On the 28th of April we found a weather window that was good enough. We go bit back and forth about what time we would be most favorable for departure. First it looks like we will avoid the strongest wind if we leave later. A few hours later the next stormy weather is forecasted to slide into our weather window. At noon we decide to lift the anchor and set sail.

We know that the first couple of hours will be the toughest 28-23 knots of wind upwind to reaching. Double reefed and shifting our course a bit so the wind comes in closer to 60-70 than 50-70 degrees we are making good speed. After a few hours we take out the first reef and around dinner time first the seas followed by the wind settle down. We can go ahead with full sails. Bart has a mellow first watch where the wind dies down further and he alters course this time further east of Imperia, instead of west which had been going. An hour into my watch the wind very slooooowly makes a full 360 degrees so I need Perky for a while 🚂. Even though there is no moon visible, the skies are filled with stars again and the sea is so calm the waves make a sort of rustling sound. On top of that the algae make for a festive night.

During Bart's second watch we can sail again and at some point he is joined by some playful dolphins 😍. We only have a couple of miles to go during my second watch. Slowly I see the coastline and mountains, which are after 7+ years of dating Bart, have become familiar to me as well. With only one mile to go I wake Bart up and it is very cute to see how he happily reacts to seeing the very familiar sights. At 8 o'clock we have docked our Nimrod in Imperia, Porto Maurizio.

We are not sure how long we will stay here. We have a list of to do's, need to do some work and will help Bart Sr and Selma with their renovation project. Most importantly we have lots of pizza's, spaghetti vongole, gelato and spaghetti fruti de mare to eat. See you in a week, or two, who knows 👋🏽Baca lagi