2019 | Annual Summer Cruise

2019 | Annual Summer Cruise

The Royal Malta Yacht Club invites its members to join a summer cruise organised by the Malta Cruising Club and Lions Club Sliema. The annual charity cruise will be heading to the South coast of Sicily.  The aim is to raise funds towards sponsoring a guide dog which will provide specific mobility services for blind and visually impaired persons .

This is not a competitive race but a relaxed cruise with plenty of good fun ashore.

Our friends in Sicily, Lions Club Members themselves, are preparing a wonderful entertaining program to enjoy local food & wine, culture and shopping but you can find a draft of the program appended to this email which will be finalised as soon as we have an estimate of the number of participants.

We will not be cruising alone.  A week before the event, 15 sailing boats will arrive from Sicily to enjoy the Santa Maria week here in Malta, after which we will depart for Sicily at midnight on Friday 16th August.

Return to Malta is scheduled on the 25th. Nevertheless any boat is free to return at any time.

No participation fee is being levied although a donation of a minimum of  20 Euro is kindly requested.

For further information please contact Brian Darmanin via email address – brian.darmanin@gmail.com

Programme for 2019 August Charity Cruise

August 16th
19:30 Pre cruise dinner at (to be announced later)
12 midnight depart for Licata (76.3 nautical miles)

August 17th
10:30 First boats start to arrive at Licata
Ground activities organised by Licata Lions

August 20th
08:30 depart Licata for Sciacca (53.4 nautical miles)
17:00 First boats arrive at Sciacca
FREE DAY

August 23rd
07:30 depart Sciacca for Scoglitti via Licata (50.3 and 27.2
nautical miles)
15:30 arrive  Sciacca   for 1 night
Ground activities organised by Sciacca Lions

August 24th
09:00 Depart Licata for Scoglitti (27.2 nautical miles)
13:00 Arrive at Scoglitti
Rest of the day is free

August 25th
Depart Scoglitti for Malta at your leisure (59.7 nautical miles)

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