Journal of the twentysecond day on board

24th May, 1999

We have been sailing since yesterday afternoon. We left Taranto for the Straits of Messina.

Time : 12,45. Capo Spartivento can be seen on the horizon, the extreme tip of Calabria, Just like the ubiquitous 'Sports Bar', the Hotel Miramonti Capo Spartivento is not an original name. There exists a Capo Spartivento in Puglia, one in Calabria, one in Sardinia and who knows how many others all over Italy.

Time : 17,53. A light north-westerly accompanies us until we are inside the port of Reggio Calabria. The current in the Strait is little more than 4 knots, but it is to stern and we succumb to the exhilaration of speed, 11 knots 'downhill'!