The Thin Red Line - Why We Did Not Spend Longer In Vulcano

2013 08 10
lovely protected Cephalu, Sicily




Here is the anchorage at Vulcano:

 Looks pretty tasty.  In this anchorage you can anchor only in the red line. 

This thin strip of sand will support 4 boats in modest anchoring conditions.  We were anchored with twenty seven, most of the skippers being credit card captains.  It lead to an entire afternoon of this

 With a gale forecast for next day we vamoosed for what we thought would be calmer waters.
 It was a good plan