Last summer, for the first time, we hired a boat and went sailing.
As usual, at the end of this post some useful info and a link for driving directions, but now I would like to begin from the end of the story: at the end of our sailing weekend, my sister and her boyfriend, who is an experienced sailorman, asked me if everything was all right, it didn’t look like I had fun. The truth is that I was speechless and a bit sad that the amazing experience was over. Thanks again guys, I really did have fun!
Now then.. we started from Cagliari and drove for one and a half hours to Portovesme where we met a third couple and caught a ferry to Carloforte, a small town in the island of San Pietro, 45 minutes from Sardinia. We also board our car and the trip was quite comfortable. On arrival, we unloaded the car and parked it nearby the harbour, easy peasy! Man that boat was something…
It was already quite late so we had a pizza and few beers on the boat and went to sleep.
The morning after the real fun started, we sailed for most of the morning and the views of Carloforte and Sardinia’s south west coast were just there, like a precious frame for a priceless painting, my sea. We stopped just on a side of Pan di Zucchero, a stunning huge surfacing rock in front of the Masua bay, and stayed there swimming and diving and snorkeling and …. I think you got it.
After lunch, we pointed towards a small bay in S. Peter island, very slowly this time because apparently we took a dangerous way were rocks are there just for you to hit them! It didn’t matter the longer you could enjoy those views, the better. In the bay we dropped the anchor and prepared to have dinner. Guys we actually cooked on the boat. Pasta with shellfish, white wine (Vermentino) and everything. Then the night..stars, moon, chats with friends, finishing the bottle, Manuela very close and staying silent… no word is enough.
In the early morning, we reached the beach with a small rubber dinghy. Nobody there, just desert. We had breakfast there. When people started to arrive we paddled back to our boat. Later some more friends arrived (two of them swimming their lungs out!!) and we spent the rest of the day having fun. In the evening we went back to Carloforte and returned the boat where we hired it.
Having the opportunity, the time and somebody that has got a license ..sailing is an experience I want to repeat.
Luca
Useful info:
At the end it was not so expensive, if I don’t remember wrong, we spent more or less 150 € each for the whole weekend (plus food).
Cooking in a boat is good fun at night, but bring plenty of easy stuff to make sandwiches, and fruits and drinks.
Suncream protection, when you are on a boat there is not escape from the sun, and from 12 to 4pm in Sardinia you can burn.
Take your snorkeling equipment, is real fun there’s another world down there.
Take some time to visit the village, Carloforte has a very peculiar history (may be in another post!)
and here are your directions!
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