The Charm of Agropoli.

DESTINATION: Mediterranean
13 Jun 13

On the southern shore of the Gulf of Salerno, Agropoli doesn’t ring bells like Amalfi and Positano but that is its charm – the place has been unspoiled by tourist business. Italian families visit often and they promenade the long straight boulevard well into the night – kids and all.

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Come Back to Sorrento

DESTINATION: Mediterranean
EXPERIENCES: Yacht Rallies
07 Jun 13

Sorrento hardly needs a song to induce migratory habits among its visitors. The Italian Job Yacht Rally arrived with the yachts berthing in pre-arranged spots in the excellent Piccolo Marina beneath the towering ‘tufa’ cliffs of the Sorrento waterfront. Ferry boats buzzed in and out of the tiny port, Mt. Vesuvius overlooked the activity from a distance and the Bay of Naples lapped calmly upon the sea wall.

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What’s a Peka?

DESTINATION: Mediterranean
EXPERIENCES: Yacht Rallies
03 May 13

Anyone who has been to Croatia will start salivating at the memory of their first meal created in a peka.

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Know Before You Go - ICC Certificates

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EXPERIENCES:
02 May 13

If you are looking to be the skipper on a charter overseas particularly Europe then you will need to get your International Certificate of Competence.

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The Kimberley on Orion Expedition Cruises

01 May 13

Truly awesome, rugged, surprising, secretive, huge, remote (We had no mobile phone signal for 10 days!), hot, dry, isolated, dangerous and all at once beautiful, red, natural, ancient, ecological, historic, silent, adventurous, challenging and a photographer or artist’s dream come true. The Kimberley is incomprehensively vast – 3 times the size of England or you could fit all of Germany or Texas inside it.

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Anzac Day in the Caribbean

DESTINATION: Caribbean
EXPERIENCES: Yacht Rallies
25 Apr 13

"The Aussies are coming! The Aussies are coming!" So went the call around Nelson's Dockyard on the southern shore of Antigua on a hot April afternoon. It was a somewhat circuitous tale, but the gist of the matter was simple: An Australian flotilla of charter boats was rambling about the Caribbean and was due to arrive at the Dockyard on April 24. At precisely 5 p.m. Antigua time, it would be dawn in Australia on April 25-Anzac Day-a particularly important waypoint on the Aussie calendar. And it was not going to pass unnoticed.

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