We announced, a week ago, that next HPYF destination will be Sicily, sailing the Aeolian islands! Within a day, we had 10 boats booked. No wonder, we’ve had fantastic sailing week with HPYF and everyone is coming back again next year. We have decided to cap the numbers to 12, so for any of you who would like to join us in Sicily next year, please take a look at the selection on the HPYF website:

http://highpointyachtfest.eu/page.asp?id=216

I look forward to hearing from you soon.

All the best, Sasha

29th September 2011:

Our sailing event, HPYF 2011, was once more a huge success! We repeated Sardina & Corsica again, this time with 9 boats. We sailed from Portisco, via Bonifacio, Budelli anchorage, La Maddalena town, La Tavolara, back to Portisco. A fantastic combination of beautiful towns and lovely anchorages.
We experienced 60 knts of wind while moored in Bonifacio, on our first night out! It was exciting. but a what a place for hiding. For the rest of the week we raced between the islands, we swam in the afternoons and we had the most fantastic gourmet dinner on Thursday night. 9 crews made a fantastic effort and prepared some of the most delicious meals for that evening. We all shared it, spread over two boats and Captain John’s team (US) won the ‘best dinner’ prize.
We had four races and the Dutch have won again! Quite convincingly so… Congratulations to Carolyn and her team for a fantastic performance!

October 2010:

A RETURN TO SARDINIA & CORSICA IN 2011

We sailed from/to Portisco in September 2010 with HPYF. In 2011 we will plan a route with similar distances and it will
certainly include an overnight stop in Bonifacio and one or more in the La Maddalena archipalego. One or two nights in anchorages will be
arranged subject to weather conditions. There is so much to explore in this area and never enough time…!
The usual format of mixing the sailing races with swimming, socialising, cooking and partying will be retained.

We had such a great week exploring this wonderful area in 2010, that we decided to return in 2011 and plan a different route to pick up the best of the places we didn’t have time to visit in 2010. We will start and finish in Portisco and include Bonifacio and new areas of La Maddalena in the itinerary.

Booking is on a first-come-first-served basis so please contact us with your preferences as soon as you can. As the fleet is fairly small, we have decided not to book any meals ahead (apart from Welcome and Prize giving evenings) but will have a list of suggestions readyin advance with the itinerary. The Welcome party will be organized by the 2010 winners, the

Dutch team led by our first ever Comodoress, Carolyn. If the party is organized in the marina, independently, we may require some funds per person in advance. The Prize giving will be booked in one of the restaurants. For those of you that are skippers without crews or crews without skippers please contact us and we will do our best to help with forming a crew for you. I look forward to hearing from you soon and to sailing Sardinia and Corsica together next September!
All the best, Sasha, John, Mandy and Dave

Walking dinner at Lavezzi, September 2010:

Hi Sasha,

I wanted to thank you on behalf of the entire crew for all your incredible assistance in making our vacation a great success.
All the arrangements you made were perfect. The transfers were flawless, the guides were excellent,
and the charter company has to be the best company I have dealt with yet.
Oceanis 523 was the best equipped of any boat I have chartered, and everything worked as advertised.
The safety gear, tools, galley stuff, bedding, towels, etc. was all top notch. The check-in and check
out were fast, about 1 hour.

Boris was a great skipper to have. He was polite, very knowledgeable, conservative, and mostly
unnoticeable (other than his mobile, which we threw overboard after it rang every 10 minutes the
first two days). I can only recommend him to anyone. With his great negotiation skills and networking
with other skippers he got us into marinas that we would not have been able to get into ourselves without
his help. I also had the chance to meet your brother Zoran, who helped us get a spot a couple of nights.

I look forward to chartering with you again in the near future. Croatia is definitely a beautiful place!
Best regards,
Markus