Isola San Nicola

Description

Isola San Nicola has just one anchorage suitable as an overnight stop in settled weather, the small harbour of Porto San Nicola at the SW end of the island. The harbour is best approached from S the channel between the islet of Cretaccio and Isola San Domino is forbidden to navigation, whereas the channel between Cretaccio and Isola San Nicola has depths of less than 2.5 metres, a shoal patch of only 1.5 metres and (like the Cretaccio/San Domino channel) a high-tension cable spanning it at a height of only just over 20 metres. Yachts up to 15 metres are permitted to moor on the short pier at the SE end of the harbour, but only between the hours of 19.00 and 8.00, when the ferries are not running. Depths on the pier range from 2.0 metres inshore to around 4.0 metres at the end.