Tue 11 Jun – Corinth to Kofos

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 interesting sight around. Picking up the anchor turned out to be a bit of a project, as the most slimy and stringy sea weed we have ever seen had created a long beard around the chain and anchor. A bit of fiddling and waving around with the boathook and off we went. Our next stop was the anchorage of Korfos, where we would meet up with Right Meow and Polaris. Getting there was a bit dull as the northerlies on the forecast didn’t fill in so we had to motor there. Luckily the trip was only a few hours and we were rewarded with a well protected anchorage in Korfos. We met up with our boat friends in George’s Taverna for dinner and went for a little walk to explore the village. Not a huge amount to see here though.

We got up early’ish the next morning for a longer walk but by the time we’d made it to land the heat had already kicked in. We pushed on and made our way up a hill next to the “village” (more like a hamlet) and got a few shots of the bay and the boats from up there. We also had the chance to observe a few locals pulling massive cables along some very wobbly looking electricity poles. How these guys manage to do this, hanging off the poles in the boiling sun all day long remains a mystery. Back on the boat we got on with a few boat jobs, one of them was to fix the water maker wiring. As always with these boat jobs the actual thing is not that difficult – crimping on a few cable terminals and screwing them onto a bus bar hardly counts as a “honest days work”. The problem is getting to things. Our water maker is installed underneath the sink in the heads, and I can only get there by folding myself origami style around the two doors and into the bathroom. After this was all done, we left the anchorage and went further south to Old Epidavros.