Settled weather is nice with sunny skies maybe a bit of high cloud and maybe periods of moderate visibility.

Sailing mediterranean winter. The UK Met office gives an average of 82 knots in the summer compared to 108 knots in winter with most major storms occurring in January. Robust sail wardrobe. Boat mooring marina in winter snow and ice frozen water and wooden pier jetty at barge sailing club.

To port the new Messolonghi Marina cant be missed 382168N 0212504E. In the western Mediterranean youre more likely to find longer periods of light air punctuated by winds like the Mistral or Tramontana which can reach storm force and whose effects can reach as far as Corsica and Sardina and the Italian coast. This is what everyone who sails there says but most people who sail there have only sailed there.

That is the formular for successful cruising of med in winter. Of course this is a. The cruising is very different from summer.

In settled weather youll mostly have lots of sun some clouds a light breeze and warm and stable temperatures. Mediterranean Sailing Weather Its easiest to think of the Mediterranean as having only two sorts of weather - settled and unsettled. The climate in the Mediterranean region is characterised by hot dry summers and mild wet winters.

Its not the usual way to do things as most cruise lines pull out of the Mediterranean in October or early November to reposition their ships to warmer climes -- usually the Caribbean or South. No Winter Sailing in the Mediterranean Sea. Winter Mediterranean landscape with sailing boats on water.

A buoyed channel 381900N 0212460E dredged to at least 6m and almost two miles long will lead you directly to the town quay which youll usually share with huge cargo ships cranes and aggregate. View of Bay of Kotor. Sailors cruising the Med like to say that theres either too much wind or not enough.