18th June Ventotene to Island of Ponza

Sealion
Richard Martin
Wed 19 Jun 2013 14:25
We set of in light airs to do the 25 miles from the island of Ventotene to the Island of Ponza. Ponza was described by a well travelled Italian sailor, we had spoke to in Amalfi, as the best Island in the Med. 
 
We had little more than 6knots of wind, so had to motor sail all the way. On arrival at about 2.00pm we had a look around  the harbour etc. but decided it would be nice to anchor off in the bay next door and have a swim. It is getting very hot now - well into the 30's so a swim was welcomed by us all.
 
The Island is indeed spectacular with rugged cliffs and rocks with many little beeches between.
 
After a swim and a laze around we went into the harbour area and asked the price at a number of the pontoons - no real marina. Anything from 60 euro's (well away from the town) to 160 euro's by the town. We had been told we could anchor to one side of the harbour which was actually quite close to the town, so that's what we did along with about twenty other sailing boats.
 
Bob & I took the tender in to recky the town - even that proved to be 'An Italian negociation' - we had to pay a few euro's to someone to use his jetty and look after the boat. The town was lovely but pretty touristic - we found a nice restaurant at one end of the town, on a beech overlooking the harbour and Sealion at anchor. We duly radioed Alison that we were coming to get her from the boat returning to be meet again by a little man who helped us pull the boat in.
 
After a great meal we returned to the boat and shortly afterwards a small fishing trawler drop anchor very close to us - no particular problem except this morning at 7.00am there was a bang on the side of the boat - with no wind the trawler had swung on its anchor and bumped into us. No damage done but I duly pushed him off - one of the fishermen came on deck a few minutes later, shrugged his shoulders and said good morning.  

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