News from old crewmates in Italy

Elegant Adriana at Pantelleria

Claudio and Adriana used to sail with us on our previous boat, Thea.  They've been back in Italy for a few years now.  I heard from Claudio the other day, out of the blue and I'm posting his news with permission.  He kindly offers that if any of our crewmates are down their way get in touch with him for sailing round these beautiful Italian isles... They live in a dammuso, a typical stone house in Pantelleria.

Bay of Islands, piccies

Follow on from immediately preceding post below....

Iris smooges Bicky, our regular Xena Crew Boss. Earlier BOI report see below.

Bay of Islands on "Bare Essentials"

Bare Essentials, Robinson 55.

Regular Xena crewmates Iris and Grant Bartlett have been down home in New Zealand racing on Bare Essentials, a Robinson-55 designed for the 2-handed Melbourne-Osaka race about 20 years ago. They send some reports and piccies, which I post with permission: