From Trieste to Genova, the circumnavigation of Italy with a Mini 6.50

On December 14th I went to Muggia (Trieste) with my boat for the presentation of the Mini-Transat project.
On the way home .... strack! We broke something, and so we decided to turn back to Muggia.
Bad luck has turned into luck; I had the opportunity to do the work together with a super shore team who took care of my boat.
After the work, I sailed up from Muggia on January 23, to arrive in time for the training in Genoa for February 13 with the coach Ambrogio Beccaria ... in short, an opportunity not to be missed!
The wind was almost always favorable and allowed me to run down the Adriatic and go up the Tyrrhenian well.
... small problems with batteries ...
Not having carefully controlled consumption, recharge times, and especially the winter season, I found myself doing 3 nights awake!
The solutions were:
1) stop in a port and rest
2) stop the boat adjusting the boat e take a nap
3) or pull straight and take advantage of the favorable wind to get to training on time
I chose the 3rd option, with a small pit stop in Leuca.
Crossing the Ionian Sea in a certain moment i fall in a complete calm until the mouth of the Strait of Messina, without batteries, with 2 nights awake and also without petrol!
I was beginning to have hallucinations from sleep, and like a godsend, I found a passage, a tow, from a German sailboat to Reggio Calabria.
Thanks a lot Nomia !!!!
In Reggio Calabria with Lorenzo we managed to find a suitable charger (I have lithium batteries) and restart the batteries.
Sailing in two people went much better, even if the inconveniences recurred and we had to sail one night without electronic instruments because the batteries had gone down again.
We managed to navigate and repair in time in Procida, before the arrival of the storm force 7!
From Procida we continued up to the Argentario where Lorenzo went down, and where I had time to rest a bit before the final rash ... Argentario-Genoa 150miles of gliding !!!
24h at the helm and 40 minutes of sleep .... I still have to instruct Bigio, my autopilot, to steer well at those speeds.
When I entered in the port of Genoa around 2 am, I realized that I was in the wrong port; with difficulty I regain my strength (by now few) I hoisted again the sails, I went outside and I go towards the tourist port ... what waves !!!
Upon my arrival I had not noticed how big they were, I had them in the stern, but then for the route from the old port to the marina I had them sideways and let's say they didn't leave me really quiet!
More or less they came halfway between the deck of the boat and the first cross ... for safety I had also closed the door of the boat, every now and then some brushing came on board! It was the waves of a storm that was coming.
I had left just in time to navigate a favorable weather window.
As if this were not enough, when I entered the entrance channel of the new port, at a certain moment I found myself in front of a wall where the waves crashed, I had left the entrance channel marked by red and green lights .. 😱 I was almost in danger of going against it .
Surely those who sail know how difficult it is to enter a port that is unknown at night, track down the red and green lights, and worse still follow an entrance channel marked by multiple red and green lights, in the midst of all the glow of lights of the city.
Luckily everything went well, and above all I managed to get there in time for the training 💪🏻 .... that have definitely finished me to exhaust 😆 now it would take me a really nice holiday in the mountains
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