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15-01-2018, 21:50
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Registered User
Join Date: Oct 2012
Location: Israel
Boat: Colvic Watson 23'9"
Posts: 81
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End of Med Sailing Season?
What would you experienced hands consider the latest in the year to comfortably coastal-hop the French and Italian coasts and cross from southern Italy to Corfu? Would mid-October be too late to set out from Port Napoleon?
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15-01-2018, 23:23
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Registered User
Join Date: Aug 2016
Location: ABC's
Boat: Prout Snowgoose 35
Posts: 1,756
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Re: End of Med Sailing Season?
Mid October to early November is the end of days. After that on the Greek side you get mad crazy winds and driving rain a good 80% of the time. When it's not like that though there are still windows of a day or two of decent weather.
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16-01-2018, 00:58
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Marine Service Provider
Join Date: Jul 2007
Location: Marmaris
Boat: FP Orana 2010, Hélia 2013, Catana C 47 2013, Nautitech 46 Fly 2018
Posts: 1,345
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Re: End of Med Sailing Season?
I've sailed from Marmaris to Gibraltar starting mid November till Christmas. October is OK, late November-December was terrible, damn cold, strong winds up to 10 Bf around Crete and wet.
If you intend to go until there, South eastern part of Turkey would be OK till the end of November.
Cheers
Yeloya
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16-01-2018, 06:08
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Registered User
Join Date: Oct 2012
Location: Israel
Boat: Colvic Watson 23'9"
Posts: 81
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Re: End of Med Sailing Season?
Thanks for the quick responses,
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16-01-2018, 06:11
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#5
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Registered User
Join Date: Oct 2012
Location: Israel
Boat: Colvic Watson 23'9"
Posts: 81
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Re: End of Med Sailing Season?
Thanks for the quick responses, Mike and Yeloya! So I guess that, unless I'm prepared to spend lots of days waiting for brief weather windows, it will be better to either move up the schedule or leave the boat in Port Napoleon until spring.
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16-01-2018, 10:43
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Registered User
Join Date: Feb 2010
Location: Marina di Ragusa, Sicily
Boat: Antares 44i
Posts: 155
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Re: End of Med Sailing Season?
This past year, we sailed from Corsica down to Sicily in mid-October and were very comfortable. We spent another couple of weeks putting the boat away, and noted just a few boats coming in in the last week of October.
For us, I would put October as the latest I would want to have the boat out before tucking her away for the season.
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16-01-2018, 17:46
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Registered User
Join Date: Sep 2010
Location: Various, Mooloolaba and Auckland
Boat: Clipper 60 SII
Posts: 159
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Re: End of Med Sailing Season?
When do people consider the start of the season to be?
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16-01-2018, 18:10
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Senior Cruiser
Join Date: Mar 2010
Location: gettin naughty on the beach in cornwall
Boat: 63 custom alloy sloop,macwester26,prout snowgoose 37 elite catamaran!
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Re: End of Med Sailing Season?
Quote:
Originally Posted by Kiwi.
When do people consider the start of the season to be?
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early april-may
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17-01-2018, 00:00
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Marine Service Provider
Join Date: Jan 2018
Posts: 43
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Re: End of Med Sailing Season?
Quote:
Originally Posted by atoll
early april-may
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Yep definitely !
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17-01-2018, 02:50
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#11
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Registered User
Join Date: Nov 2010
Location: UK, Croatia
Boat: Fountaine Pajot Athena 11.6m Rapa Nui II
Posts: 730
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Re: End of Med Sailing Season?
It is very variable spring and autumn but in the Adriatic April to October albeit you still have a chance of either or both end months being bad.
2016 you could have sailed until Christmas with lots of good weather and no rain.
2017 September was poor wet and windy after a really hot summer, but October was better.
One thing that is fairly consistent are the overnight minimum temperatures which rise pretty quickly in April and drop quickly in October. From mid October to mid April most people will need heating.
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17-01-2018, 03:43
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Registered User
Join Date: Sep 2010
Location: Various, Mooloolaba and Auckland
Boat: Clipper 60 SII
Posts: 159
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Re: End of Med Sailing Season?
Quote:
Originally Posted by Rapanui
It is very variable spring and autumn but in the Adriatic April to October albeit you still have a chance of either or both end months being bad.
2016 you could have sailed until Christmas with lots of good weather and no rain.
2017 September was poor wet and windy after a really hot summer, but October was better.
One thing that is fairly consistent are the overnight minimum temperatures which rise pretty quickly in April and drop quickly in October. From mid October to mid April most people will need heating.
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Thanks for that. We're planning on selling Nikka sometime in the next year and buying similar in the Med for my oncoming retirement plan.
It's been a crazy season here in NZ with some beautiful weather for a week or two followed by some serious blows. Today we've had a decent northerly blow up to 40 knots in the Hauraki Gulf and we're still getting 30 knot gusts tonight (NZ time) in our anchorage in Fitzroy. Love my Rocna!
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17-01-2018, 06:56
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Registered User
Join Date: Nov 2011
Location: Portugal/Med
Boat: Comet 41s
Posts: 6,140
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Re: End of Med Sailing Season?
It all depends on what you are whiling to endure and also on the particular year and location.
If you don't stay at ports (to wait the bad weather to go away) than late october is the limit even if after mid september you get some days with heavy rain, big thunderstorms ( last 15 days of September).
Many times a good part of October is better than the last 15 days of September even if the temperature starts to decrease on the north mediterranean.
In october the fist big winter storms may well start to show up.
That does not mean that if you are sheltered in a good port there are not many sunny days through the winter where you can have some very nice sailing days or even weeks, specially on the South, or even out of the med in Algarve on the south Portuguese coast.
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17-01-2018, 07:24
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#14
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Registered User
Join Date: Aug 2016
Location: ABC's
Boat: Prout Snowgoose 35
Posts: 1,756
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Re: End of Med Sailing Season?
Late September when I was in Siracusa there was thunder and lightening practically every day. Not necessarily rain, and it wasn't necessarily close, but it was there.
In fact in was in Siracusa I got tagged by some kind of electrical blast during a storm. I only went out to bring my cockpit cushions in.
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18-01-2018, 00:16
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#15
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Registered User
Join Date: Sep 2010
Location: Boat in Greece
Boat: Lagoon 400
Posts: 1,432
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Re: End of Med Sailing Season?
Quote:
Originally Posted by Kiwi.
When do people consider the start of the season to be?
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We have started last year at the beginning of April in the Dodecanese area. It was manageable but cold. Had to use occasionally full assortment of clothes and had occasional interruptions due to bad weather (but this can happen in high summer as well)
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