Pius, a special floating house

Sailing from Portofino (Italy) to St.Tropez/Port Cros/Porquerolles (Fra). Portofino, a real pearl. Here we spent some days admiring the beautiful Italian towns of Portofino and Santa Margherita. After that - we set up sails heading west across the Gulf of Genoa, where weather is often unforeseeable but this time was really mild. Anna and Emma joined me in Cannes and finally we could share our family's floating house....here are scenes from the big party with Emma dancing (the beer bottle is empty)! The Sorba family joined us in Cogolin for a long weekend in Port Cros and Porquerolles. 22°C on November the 1st....great fun, sailing and biking!

(First) Sailing from Santa Margherita (GE) to Marina di Pisa Finally I am going to get to know you better...let's sail for one hundred miles together, just me and you Pius! We reached the Arno, the river that after crossing Tuscany passes through Florence and Pisa, one of the 4 A ncients   Marine  Republics.    The Arno is navigable for some miles until the first bridge, then with a tender rib you can reach easily Pisa and then Florence among dozens of "Bilancioni" an ancient way of fishing small fishes. In Arnovecchio, an old historic small harbour on the Arno, I introduced Pius to  Pippus, our dear and beloved old Swan 44 S&S . We were moored next to the Natural Reserve of San Rossore Migliarino  with hundreds of deer, fawns and wild boars free to run about among the oak forest and the Arno river. And in the background you can see the Apuan Alps where the best marble in the world has been mined since the 1st Century B.C.   A new low pressure cell is coming...best to

Surveying Pius on Friday 13th...auspicious?   Here we have Pius (ex Nard V)  being hauled by Emma  in Chiavari (Genova, Italy)  for a complete  survey  run by Davide Zerbinati.   She looks well - hale and hearty! .         ...And finally in the afternoon we took her for a "quiet" sea test ! sailing @7,5kts with just 10kts of TWS   !Purchased  (: Welcome to the family Pius