Sailing tours certainly seem like the right way to enjoy a well-deserved vacation! These last years of living with the Covid-19 emergency have affected our physical and mental fatigue. We have been limited in our freedom to travel, kept away from loved ones and places of the heart, with new rules to follow and often worried about our safety and how the environment affects it.
Yet, as people who love to travel and collect new experiences, we still look forward to the possibility of making a new adventure not only a dream, but a reality.
Sailboat tours certainly seem like the right way to enjoy a well-deserved vacation!
Needing to ensure our own safety and that of others who might come in contact with us, is a perfect reason for sailing holidays to be the premium way to enjoy safe travelling again, even while corona virus continues to be an obstacle to travel in general.
The sea offers the possibility to reduce encounters with other people to a minimum and in the secluded bays of an island, with only our friends and family with us, we can discover again the joy of travelling.
Sailing boats and catamaran are widely recognized as a safe environment and rendered even more safe by the possibility to keep distance from the land. This, together with the increased attention to sanitation of the vessels by the charter yacht industry, have made this way to travel one of the most appreciated of the past summer season.
A popular sentiment that will most certainly be confirmed in the coming months, as the choice of a sailing boat holiday or catamaran holiday has revealed itself to be the best way to manage a holiday in these times, away from the big cities and the masses.
Planning a sailing boat or catamaran holiday is currently to be recognized as the best way to plan a safe get away. Especially because this type of holidaying now comes with covid-19 policies of ensured travelling. That is, reservations guaranteed by the renter himself, without the need to take out and pay canonical insurance, with the possibility of redeeming the deposit at a later time via voucher, in case the trip proves impossible due to illness or closure of the borders.
Mediterranean sailing trips offer a great number of destinations both by land and sea with amazing views, Mediterranean cuisine, wine and the warmth of the land and the people.
Sicily, in particular, is quite blessed by good weather from early April to late November and sailing boat and catamarans holidays are currently on offer with some very good discounts and premium prices.
Sicily, with its amazing panoramic views, offers the opportunity to discover nature, small island life and spectacular places. Among those top destinations are the well-known Aeolian Islands, which are always a marvellous destination for boat rental in Sicily: amazing eruptions of the Stromboli volcano, enchanting bays in Lipari, Filicudi and Vulcano Islands and the fun filled evenings of Salina are top among the marvels to be enjoyed.
Still, Sicily has also lesser-known destination like the Egadi Islands, a small group of islands just off the north-western coast of Sicily, generally avoided by the more touristy crow are among the must-visit places of Sicily, with their Caribbean like clear waters and secluded coves where to throw the anchor of your sailing boat or catamaran. Egadi Islands sailing cruises will give you also the opportunity to visit the coast of Sicily, which offer enchanting places like the Natural Reserve of Lo Zingaro, San Vito Lo Capo town with its famous CousCous Festival, Trapani, with its beautiful city centre and the Arabic atmosphere of Marsala.
A sailing tour on a sailboat or catamaran, even more so in these difficult times with the covid-19 pandemic still underway, has certainly become an effective method to combat stress, depression and anxieties, because sailing is a real cure for the times that we live.
By Nila Megna