Sailing in Sicily with Eye Candy



9:20 PM Sun 30 May 2010 GMT
'Sailing to Sicily - what a delight!' Clare and Andrew Payne
Andrew and Clare Payne are cruising the Mediterranean on their yacht Eye Candy, their Bavaria yacht they have been sailing there since 2005. Here they tell a snippet of their blissfully easy sailing experiences in Sicily: We left Pilos in the Peloponnisos on Monday morning to travel 300 miles to Siracusa in Sicily. We sailed for forty hours - smooth sailing, doing between 3-7 knots on a beam reach. WELCOME TO SIRACUSA, SICILY After being at sea for three days, the smell of land is quite disgusting. Modern Siracusa is industrial and has a strong sulphur smell. There is a ...


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by Andrew and Clare Payne




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