Πορτογαλία
Baia di SistianaDuino-Sistiana
οριακάσήμερα εκτεθειμένο κατά μέτωπο στη φουσκοθαλασσιά (επίπεδο πόλης)
- παράθυρο
- Every session has to be marked at the surface: without a marker you are not in order, quite apart from not being seen. On a shore oriented at 300° the usable light ends before the legal hour, which stays the hour of the sun. Italian law is the same everywhere; it is the local command that applies it. At Duino-Sistiana a short legal window beats a long questionable one.
- παλίρροια
- If anything changes the level at Duino-Sistiana, it is pressure and wind, not the moon. The Gulf of Trieste is the Italian exception: the range reaches about 0.8 m at springs and stays around 0.3 m at neaps. The ten-metre line, 690 m offshore, does not move with the level: it moves with the swell. In a channel it is the current that decides the route: plan it before getting in.
- καταφύγιο
- In Ponente or Tramontana the swell arrives across and you can still work by staying tight to the rock. In a bay like this the shelter is a few tens of metres wide, tucked against the windward point rather than in the middle of the arc, and in a hard Maestrale not even that. If the swell starts working inside the 420 m of coastal strip, the session is over. The 690 m that separate the shore from ten metres of water tell you how much sea it takes to ruin the day.
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