pantelleria

We visited this port for only 1 night. We were a bit cautious because in the book it writes about several obstacles in and under water. But it was quite easy. The submerged dike in the vieux port is very well marked with yellow buoys and clearly visible.

In the other port we did not find dangerous rocks around the quay anymore.

Puerto Nuevo
first went to the new port, but the pontoon we had to tie up to did not have anything to tie a rope to. So we were talking with the harbormaster what to do, while both standing with the landlines on the pontoon. The man was angry because we did not want to stay (we really did not do or say anything insulting or something), and he just threw our bowline in the water and walked away. The wind was quite strong and our boat started drifting away, but with the stern line we could manage to get the boat closer again and step on board. But i wont recommend to stay in this port. Later we gave the harbor master another chance and again he was very rude and aggressive. This port costs 30 euro's a night.

Puerto Vieux
The old port, just next to it was for free. (this is not the case in summer season, but i don't know when this changes) The depths where good on the North quay, we measured about 3 meter. Towards the east it gets a bit more shallow.
We were the only boat in the port, but this will be different in summer.

We had a 15 knots west wind during our stay, there was a little chop in this port, but very doable.

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