Watch Cat

Via del Molo Mediceo: I have never seen a cat looking so evil-minded...

See also: The Grumpy Cat - Killer Gaze
Search labels: cat

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Pandora

This year I didn't see much of the TAN (Naval Academy Trophy) because of our holiday in Rome, but considering these last days, it seems that I didn't miss much. The village and the sail boats have moved out of the Porto Mediceo to a faraway and unwelcoming pier: the tents hosting the shops are a sauna and you can hardly see the boats, moored along a straight stretch of barren quay, often blocked by a huge crane.

This boat was built in 1994 as “Anna” in Karelia, Russia, as a faithful replica of a 18th-century postal vessel sailing the Baltic. A few years ago she was found abandoned and almost sunken near the port of Genoa.

She was salvaged and completely restored by her actual owner: renamed as “Pandora” the barquentine managed to win two Tall Ship Races in 2007 and 2010. She is now a training ship of sorts for students.

Search labels: TAN - Tuttovela
External links: Barquentine (Wikipedia)

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From the Swing Bridge

The swing bridge, festooned with the colors of our quarters, is the perfect place to watch the start and the finish line of the “Trofeo Gaetano D'Alesio”.

A view over the Darsena Nuova, with the crew of the Borgo Cappuccini still rowing to his second place.

See also: Trofeo D'Alesio - Trofeo D'Alesio 2011 - Trofeo D'Alesio 2012 - Trofeo D'Alesio 2013

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Via Salvino Salvini

Apartment building in Via Salvino Salvini.

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Trofeo D'Alesio 2013

The “Trofeo Gaetano D'Alesio” is the first competition of our rowing season, a series of races between the “gozzi” (rowboats) of the quarters of Livorno.

The trophy has been won, as always in the last years, by the rowers of Venezia.

The Venezia's crew at the rounding of the mark.

See also: Trofeo D'Alesio - Trofeo D'Alesio 2011 - Trofeo D'Alesio 2012

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The Trunk

A mysterious and well locked trunk, on the banks of the “Canale dei Navicelli”...

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Giraglia

The ferry “Giraglia” undergoing some maintenance inside the small dry dock. She is the sister ship of the “Bastia” and her name comes from an island at the northern tip of Corsica.

After a few days in Rome, we are coming back home today...

See also: Strange Ships
External links: Giraglia
Search labels: Moby - ferry

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