The Maddalena Islands are just off the NW coast of Sardinia,
a great first sail for Assim. We spent 2
nights in the port of Maddalena, which gave us a chance to hire bicycles and
explore Maddalena and Caprera, the adjoining island, including the home of
Garibaldi, who spent the last years of his life there. Assims week which ended
at Olbia and included a lovely night at anchor, was a good one for sailing,
Assim helmed Cara Mara very impressively in a force 6 downwind dash.
Unfortunately with no wind forecast for the following week
and after a very impressive night of rain and thunder storm, Sarah, Wendy and
Dave set off 40 miles motoring down the coast to the small village of Cala
Gonone. Sadly progress was arrested just 2 miles short of our destination, when
the engine overheated. A fishing boat kindly towed us the final part of our
journey. Today we discovered that the drive for the water cooling pump has
failed meaning we will be waiting for spare parts here for at least 4-5 days. We
are now looking at car hire rather than sailing for the rest of this week.
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