Season 4, already back on dry land

My mother-in-law said to us recently, “You’re having a bit of a bumpy start to the season aren’t you”. She’s not wrong, and this week it got even more interesting. Last Friday we finally collected the...

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Captain's Log Greece

Mon 29 Jul – Kato Koufonisi

The morning started with a fresh westerly breeze, which meant we were sitting on a lee shore. For our readers who are less nautically inclined, “sitting on a lee shore” basically means that the boat is pretty close to...

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Captain's Log Greece

Sat 27 Jul and Sun 28 Jul – Koufonisi

Saturday Let’s try again – Koufonisi here we come! The wind and waves looked much more favourable so we set off at around 09:00. Our destination was Pori, a bay at the NE tip which we’d heard was beautiful. The...

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Captain's Log Greece

Thu 25 Jul and Fri 26 Jul – Still in Schinousa

Thursday Where we’d anchored in hindsight wasn’t the best place. We were a safe distance from the rocks however the swell that was rolling in was bouncing off them and rebounding into us. The wind already was blowing 25...

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Captain's Log Greece

Wed 24 Jul – Koufonisi (well, almost)

The next island up is called Koufonisi and we’d heard good things about it so we wanted to go. We left the anchorage at 09:00 and motored up and around the top of Schinousa. With the wind being what it is around here...

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Captain's Log Greece

Mon 22 Jul and Tue 23 Jul – Quiet days in Schinousa

Monday It was really windy on Monday so we took the opportunity to brush up on our knots. With The Knot Bible at the ready we armed ourselves with two pieces of line and started practicing. It was fun for a few hours...

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Captain's Log Greece

Sun 21 Jul – Dragging anchor

This morning we got up early (but not early enough) for a run. By 0830 the sun was already beating down and that combined with the very hilly route made the modest 5km feel like we were running a marathon in the Sahara...

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Captain's Log Greece

Sat 20 Jul – Sail to Schinousa

Looking at the latest forecast the wind was supposed to build late morning so we set off from Ios towards Schinousa, which is an island in the Small Cyclades. These are a group of 4 inhabited islands laying south of...

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Captain's Log Greece

Fri 19 Jul – Day in Ios

Being in a little cove all by ourselves I couldn’t pass up on an opportunity to take some photos with the drone. I dragged poor Tom out of bed before the wind picked up and we were out on deck snapping away by 08:00. It...

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Captain's Log Greece

Wed 17 Jul and Thu 18 Jul – Despotiko anchorage and sail to Ios

The day started pretty much as expected, which is: veeery windy. A few boats had found their way into the anchorage over the night and it took a few seconds sticking our heads out of the hatch to figure out what’s going...

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Captain's Log Greece

Sun 14 Jul to Tue 16 Jul – Paros to Antiparos

Sunday The boat was still pretty filthy after her stint at the boat yard, the chrome took it especially badly and every inch was covered in rusty patches. It’s not really until you come to clean it do you realise how...

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Captain's Log Greece

Fri 12 Jul and Sat 13 Jul – Paros

Friday Somehow we must have gotten used to sleeping in a washing machine as we both woke up on Friday morning relatively fresh considering how rolly it’d been. There was still a bit of northerly wind blowing but...

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Captain's Log Greece

Mon 8 Jul to Wed 11 Jul – Sifnos

Monday Phil had told us about a coffee roastery here in the remote bay of Apokofto beach. It seemed an odd place for a roastery so we definitely had to go and check it out. We found it was being run by a young couple...

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Captain's Log Greece

Sun 7 Jul – Syros to Sifnos

We woke up bright and early on Sunday morning, with a decent wind blowing through the anchorage. Should be a sporty sail about 25 miles south with the wind behind us. Up went the hook, and as we motored out of the bay a...

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Captain's Log Greece

Fri 5 Jul and Sat 6 Jul – Finishing the repairs and we’re back in the water!

Friday Friday was going to be the big day. Bini’s forestay should be put back up and the GRP repairs should be finished. We had an early start in eager anticipation of the things to come, but managed to wait until...

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Captain's Log Greece

Tue 2 Jul to Thu 4 Jul – Hotel hopping and beach exploring

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...

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View of bay Ermoupoli Syros

Captain's Log Greece

Wed 26 Jun to Mon 1 Jul – Life in Ermoupoli, Syros

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...

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Captain's Log Greece

Tue 25 Jun – A hairy trip to Ermoupoli for our haul-out

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...

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Man repairing a sail boat

Boat Jobs Captain's Log Greece

Mon 24 Jun – Getting started with the repair in Finikas

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...

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Boat Jobs Captain's Log Greece

Sun 23 Jun – Bini gets damaged in Finikas

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...

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Captain's Log Greece

Sat 22 Jun – A seriously gusty Delfini Beach

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...

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Captain's Log Greece

Wed 19 Jun to Fri 21 Jun – Fikiada on Kithnos Island

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...

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Captain's Log Greece

Tue 18 Jun – Olympic Marina

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...

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Captain's Log Greece

Sun 16 Jun and Mon 17 Jun – Sounion

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...

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Captain's Log Greece

Sat 15 Jun – Kilma Beach on Egina Island

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...

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