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This week we hear from a Saratoga couple whose boating adventures took them to an archipelago off the coast of Sicily. Read on for details, and find more travel inspiration at www.mercurynews.com/tag/wish-you-were-here/.
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ITALY: Saratoga residents Dave and Linda Scott recently explored the Aeolian Islands, an archipelago within the Tyrrhenian Sea north of Sicily, aboard the Sea Cloud, a 1931-built yacht owned by Marjorie Merriweather Post. “The ship was a gift from her husband EF Hutton in 1931,” Dave says. “In addition to being a private yacht, it also saw service in World War II and has the distinction of being the U.S. Navy's first racially integrated ship during the war. The Sea Cloud was restored in 2011 and is now part of Sea Cloud Cruises.
“Every trip on the Sea Cloud is special. The ship only has room for 55 passengers, and the 70-strong crew ensures that everyone seems to be well taken care of: there may be Michelin-star quality cuisine, a private cabin steward and the crew ventures into the rigging each day to set the sails and take everyone to a different, less visited port of call.”
These stops included the 16th-century Aeolian Castle (pictured) on the Aeolian island of Lipari.
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