We dropped our anchor in the buoyed anchorage by Ponza harbour. There didn't seem to be a lot of room, but it was easy enough to park ourselves without encroaching on another's anchorage…….. and then it began! An extraordinary influx of boats… they poured into the anchorage, and around it. Dropping anchors, tiny anchors, filling every space. A few police boats rounding them up and pushing them further in to leave space for the ferries. We have a boat 3m from our bow and another as close to the stern. If the wind changes there will be chaos!!! The whole thing lasted for hours and apart from a few shouts when one of those giant black speedboat things banged into an anchored yacht (everyone moves at high speed) it is all done in fine humour. There simply isn't enough space, but all are used to it, and somehow manage.
call me tacky but I could handle one of those floating armchair/motorised sunbathing platforms with matching black fenders... as long as someone else handled the whole anchoring palaver and served me drinks and dropped me gently over the side when I got too warm... am going to my cold bed now to warm it up and dream of matching black fenders. ciao
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