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Marina di Camerota, Camerota, Campagna – a small marina with large prices. €125/night for a 13m sailboat plus €5 for electricity plus €3 for a shower (and the facilities have restricted hours). The small town has no more or less to recommend it than any other small town in the region. Basically a rip-off. Anchoring outside the harbour (i.e. immediately East) is an economic option.
Hi, I like to make a suggestion. Italy is a really large area and most of you know the books of Rod Heikell, which are quite nice. But I am afraid, they are not updated anymore in a real permanent way and some information seem to be a little out of time, sometimes. Anyway, they are good for checking back other information. I turned to use the Italian “Pagine Azzurre”, which is really good work, with all necessary information and no private opinions (which I like). You can buy it nearly everywhere. It’s not expensive and it has all the ports in it.
And it’s online available too. https://www.pagineazzurre.com – It is in Italian only, but in times of online translators even this is no problem and while planning your trip you’ll learn some words Italian, which is more than helpful, as Italians are very happy when you’re just trying to speak their language, no matter how good! Have a safe journey!
Immigrants at sea
Due to the issue of immigrants trying to get to Spain from North Africa, you will no doubt encounter some of their boats, as we did. The Spanish coast guard will put out notifications on VHF about boats that they know of, their approximate vicinity and no. of people on board. My advice is as follows:
When you spot such a vessel, get in contact with the closest MRCC centre in Spain or Italy. Get close to the vessel so you can report status etc., but do not attempt to take anybody onboard. Some of these boats have 28 people or more on board.
In these areas help is only a couple of hours away. We spotted a small boat about 60 miles south of Carthagena and changed course 90 depree’s to investigate. Within 3 minutes we were called up by MRCC Carthagena asking us to help in the search of a vessel with 8 people on board. We followed the small boat for a couple of hours until dusk but never caught up with the boat as they were going as fast as we were, but gave course and heading to the Spanish Coast Guard who picked them up a couple of hours later.
I’m investigating different options for my trip from France to Greece and looking for suggestions for:
1. place/marina/mooring around Genoa/Italy to leave my sailing boat (9.98×3.5m 2m draft) from 11 Jul to 20 Jul.
2. place/marina/mooring around Naples/Italy to leave my sailing boat (9.98×3.5m 2m draft) for a week from 12th August.
Warning for the marina Fossa de Gallo. Extremely boring marina with a 1 km walk to the nearest village. Expensive and you get nothing but a berth. They charged us 70 euros in early May.
We arrived from Corfu, the first port of call was Le Castella, a very sleepy little fishing town with a fort worth visiting. We couldn’t reach anyone at the marina so we went inside the fishing port and moored alongside for one night. The fishermen said it was ok. We found one pizza place open and had the best pizza and calzone for around €5 each!!
I’m Australian and sail Med every summer. Last yr Greece to Italy & Sicily. I would not recommend cruising much of Italian coast. Few anchorages & marinas expensive. This year we are in Sardinia and Corsica. Highly recommend Sardinia especially the north coast and Maddalena archipelago. Beautiful cruising islands, crystal clear over sand. Bonifacio on south Corsica stunning harbour & ancient town. They have charter fleets. north coast Sardinia is spitting distance to south coast Corsica.
Hi Dave, try Croatia for sailing, much more interesting for family sailing with children, 1000s of islands, 1000s of gulfs or ports, a lot of possibilities to enjoy summer vacations with the boat in Europe. Not so hard like the west side of Italy, very easy to navigate. I’ll be happy to help you. If you want, of course.
Hi Armando, Thanks for your kind offer of help. Our family (wife, myself and 3 teenage kids)from Australia are planning a 1 month holiday in Italy in September/October next year. We would like to include a week chartering a sailing boat. Can you recommend a nice area? Sardinia looks good but has read that winds can be a bit strong at that time of year. Would welcome your comments. Ciao David
I am available for any information regarding cruising in Italy, especially on the warnings and advice. In particular, I can help you if you are cruising on Sardinia, Sicily, Tuscany, Rome, Calabria, Rocella Ionica. Please do not hesitate to ask I’ll be happy to help you. You find my contact information in my profile. Armando
There is a wreck with a pink dotted line around at that lat-long clearly marked on Navionics. There is also a rock showing at 38° 11.153’N, 012° 44.297’E, also surrounded by a pink dotted line.
Capo San Vito:
During our approach of the harbour, we hit an object in 13 m deep water. The depth of this object is approx 3 m. It can be a rock or a wreck. It is not on any of the electronic maps. The location of the object is approx. 38 11.19 N 012 44.19 W. Stay away from this area!
The anchorage north of the harbour is excellent in strong westerlies.