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The first bonito of the trip and a stormy night at anchor.
13 April 2026 · 14 min · 626 views · Marianelli, Sicily
What this video covers
Departing Syracuse, Sicily on September 3, Captain Ziane sails south in 25 knots with three reefs in the mainsail and a reduced genoa, beating into steep head seas that repeatedly stop the boat.▶ 0:50 He checks Windy for a wind corridor and targets the anchorage at Marianelli, arriving around 19:00 in 2.7 meters of water.▶ 4:40 That night a thunderstorm wakes him while he is sleeping on deck; he scrambles to close hatches and retrieve cushions and a tablet before the rain soaks everything.▶ 5:53 The following morning, September 4, conditions improve markedly — 12 knots of wind, nearly flat water — and he rounds Capo Passero, noting the passage between the islet and Porto Palo is marked dangerous and choosing to pass to port instead.▶ 8:57 Sailing a broad reach at 6 knots, he catches his first bonito of the trip on a new lure after roughly an hour and a half of trolling, then cooks and eats it underway.▶ 8:13 After two months of sailing almost exclusively upwind, the reaching conditions off the southern tip of Sicily stand out as the best sailing of the voyage so far.▶ 10:39 Favorable conditions prompt him to extend the day's run to 18:00–19:00 rather than stopping early.▶ 12:09
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