Tuesday The morning started rather slowly after our darts frenzy the night before. We might have had a little bit too much of the local wine, but oh well. “When in Greece”, or how does the saying go? The whole of last...
Since our last update we’ve done exactly zero nautical miles and we’re still on Syros. Although this stint on land wasn’t exactly in the plan we can’t have wished for a better place to be for a few days. The town of...
I think we were both a little apprehensive about sailing the boat against the building Meltemi as well as getting her out of the water and onto the hard. This would explain why we both woke up around 04:30, an hour...
Part of yesterday’s frustration came from the fact that we had a somewhat smashed up boat and nothing we could do about it, being late on a Sunday. We had planned to do a temporary fix with Sikaflex that would probably...
Without much sleep we left our gusty bay in the morning, destination Finikas, a few miles down the west coast. The gusts were still rolling in so we were expecting outside of the bay to be the same, but were surprised...
We left the tranquility of Fikiada bay and set off north up the west side of Kithnos. The wind was forecast to build from the north so we wanted to reach the tip of the island before that set in. Motoring into a...
On Wednesday we went back to Sounion to meet with some friends for lunch, and later dinner. We had a really rocky night at anchor whose only blessing was that we were up and out by 07:30 – destination Fikiada Bay...
In the morning, almost at first light we were at the door of the amazingly well stocked chandlers. Seeing as we didn’t need anything specific we did pretty well, and came away with a big bag and 250 EURs lighter...
On Sunday we continued making our way east towards Sounion, which was about 25NM from our bay Klima Beach. The Cape of Sounion is the SE corner of the Greek mainland east of Athens, and home to a famous Temple of...
After a few days in Epidavros it was time once again to pick up the hook and explore somewhere else. As our general direction is south and east, we picked a bay called “Kilma beach” as our next destination. The bay is...
We dropped the hook in Palaia Epidavros. It’s a small town with a few tavernas and a town quay mostly taken up by charter boats. We were initially thinking to moor up to the quay as this would make the oil change we had...
We left the overnight anchorage at Corinth after a good night sleep. While it was great to stay here after coming through the Corinth canal, the anchorage was a bit boring, with the oil refinery being the most...
We planned an early start for the day as it looked like the last with some wind before a week or so with no wind. Staying true to our mantra “less engine, more sailing” we wanted to make use of it and see if we could...
Friday On Friday we continued to Galaxidi. We had wind for the first hour or so (which allowed us to test our jib fix, all good so far) but it then dropped off so we motored the rest of the way. Our friends on Polaris...
Wednesday We were having a good run of favourable wind so we were off again on Wednesday heading further east into the Gulf of Patras. We hoisted the sails as we rounded the last buoy and sailed along on a beam reach...
