In winter you need to travel carefully from one well protected anchorage to another well protected anchorage.

Sailing mediterranean winter. We choose Astypalea due to it having an excell. The cruising is very different from summer. Go to anchorages with good protection and be prepared or 50 knots plus no matter what the forcast.

This is what everyone who sails there says but most people who sail there have only sailed there. However Cyprus is not known for many places to anchor marinas can be expensive especially in the summer and there are not many of them. Mediterranean Sailing Weather Its easiest to think of the Mediterranean as having only two sorts of weather - settled and unsettled.

In settled weather youll mostly have lots of sun some clouds a light breeze and warm and stable temperatures. 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. Although the Spanish and African coasts are dry year-round.

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. 53 Sailing The Mediterranean In Winter - 2 Days Offshore Pt1 - YouTube. The summer is the most popular season to cruise in the Med.

No Winter Sailing in the Mediterranean Sea. This ones focused on antiquity but has the full Vegetius passage I excerpted above if youre curious Good luck with your. July direction Gibraltar Costa Del Sol Baleares.

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. The peak months are characterised by light winds afternoon sea breezes intense heat and crowds of boaters. Many sailors might know that Cyprus is another option to escape from Schengen the winter weather is superb and the marina Limassol is very safe.