Once you have passed the La Maddalena Archipelago Park, you might think that you are about to embark on a long (and possibly boring) ride south along the east coast of Sardegna. This is far from the case, and we found some of the most moving views of the island.
The plan was to head south as far as possible today. We departed early, under the rain, as expected. Initially, we had a good back wind pushing us at 7 knots. However, as soon as we passed the Cap Ferro, at the north-east of Sardegna, it started raining like cats and dogs, the wind dropped and started veering in all directions before stabilising right in our nose. We decided to take shelter in the closest marina available, which happened to be Porto Cervo. The resident population is around 420 inhabitants, but it has a particularity: "Porto Cervo has been named one of the most expensive resorts in the world, along as being a luxury yacht magnet and billionaires' playground" as stated on Wikipedia
I finished the previous post with the forecast for the area with gusts of up to 40 knots. This very windy weather lasted for 3 days and forced us to stay in the port of La Maddalena. La Maddalena is the capital of the island of La Maddalena, one of the seven islands in the La Maddalena archipelago.
From Propriano we had planned to make a stopover on the way to Bonifacio. However, after a very sunny first week with calm winds, the forecast for the next few days was stormy. We decided to sail through the Strait of Bonifacio on the 7th of May to find a good shelter for the coming stormy days without delaying our journey to the south...
But things turned out quite differently. The wind came much stronger than the forecast, from the east, forcing us to tack against the current and the waves in winds of around 25 knots. As we were not progressing as expected and would not reach Sardegna before nightfall, we decided to anchor in a sheltered bay on the way to Bonifacio. We found good shelter, soon joined by two other boats, in a small Corsican paradise, the bay of Arbitru.
