Secca di Santa Lucia

Secca di Santa Lucia sits about 300 m off Elba's north coast, with the island bulk immediately to the south sheltering it from Libeccio (SW) and all southerly weather — the whole S-SE-SW arc is fully blocked by land only a few hundred metres away. The exposed window is the open Ligurian/upper-Tyrrhenian Sea to the north, so the site takes wind-sea and chop from the N-NNE-NE sectors, driven mainly by Maestrale/Tramontana (NW-N) and Grecale (NE). Punta Falcone and Capo Enfola to the WNW-W partly shadow the western sectors, and the Scoglietto islet and the mainland gap to the ENE-E give only partial cover. There is no true ocean swell here — the concern is a sustained northerly blow raising short wind-waves that add surface movement and cut visibility, at which point trips shift to more sheltered south-coast sites.