A Brescian in Sicily, our first story of 2015 – Part Six
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Adriano Gatta, Brescia DOC, class of 1956, free-rider, mountaineer, former judo national team member, photography enthusiast (the photos accompanying the story are his). We have already brought you his article in which he explained his conversion from powerboat racer to sailor: we now publish in installments, as they used to do in old-time newspapers, the (semi-serious) account of his sailing over (and under) the sea of the Egadi Islands, Ustica and the Aeolian Islands, with some points on the northern coast, completed last summer.
The vacation is really coming to an end…….one of the most beautiful and longest of my life, in fact maybe the longest, beautiful, beautiful, although with ups and downs, normal when you have to share small spaces with other people who are not as paranoid as I am about managing the boat….
It’s almost a month since I left and I want to go back home, to my city, see my son, my mother my beloved mountains…..
We proceed side by side to Levanzo where we stop for lunch and a swim under the lighthouse of Capo Grosso immersed in an indescribable blue.
Pine, being the great hunter that he is, spots a vulture perched on a rock and as I reach for my camera he opens his immense( almost three-meter) wings and flies off.
Still by motor we reach Marettimo and moor at Mimmo’s, and after a nice shower and the Ape in the boat we go to Giovanni’s for dinner at the Scaletta, unmissable, as always. The last few days go by quickly, perhaps it is the desire to return. The Gi’s ( Gi and Lidia) left this morning by hydrofoil for Trapani and will return to Palermo where they left the car, then from there they will return to Brescia……Good trip !!!)
After a nice dive with Voglia di Mare, Marcello Lorenzi’s diving, we set off for Favignana and off the coast of Levanzo we passed the Golly that is sailing with the usual grecale( but weren’t the Egadi islands the Mistral or Scirocco islands ? ). We moor at the park buoy in Cala Azzurra and then last dinner on the …Golly all together.
Last day at sea: wake up calmly, relax breakfast and then sail 37to Cala Fredda in Levanzo, visit to the village38, slush of rigor and, still sailing, upwind wide to Trapani, passing Formica and Maraone39, the two islets in front of the city.
We finally arrive at Marina Levante after having sailed, in 18 actual days, 497 miles, met incredible characters, revised my “northerner” judgment of “terroni,” visited beautiful places, immersed myself in a wonderful sea, and ranked the various islands( see below).
And as soon as I set foot on the ground another welcome surprise.
I am approached by a very nice couple with a distinct Bolognese accent and reading the name on the stern of the boat:
<< but I can’t believe it, I just read, an hour ago, your story in the Sailing Newspaper ( see August GdV) and fate brings us together in the same marina. We too dropped everything and now live here, by boat and we chose Trapani because it is a beautiful city and Marina Levante because it feels like home. Welcome !!!>>
GRADING CLASSIFICATION ( with some ex-aequo)
1st Marettimo – Alicudi
2nd Ustica – Stromboli
3rd Volcano
4th Panarea
5th Filicudi – Favignana
6th Salina – Levanzo
7th Lipari
P.S. I still miss Pantelleria, Lampedusa and Linosa…..I will let you know
But, most of all it is missing, and rightly so, the Neverland
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