Cam & Tom's Sailing Blog

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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Category - Greece

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Thu 1 Aug – Generator hunting in Paros

Thursday started as slow as a day can start. We both woke up, realised it was way too early, slept a few more hours, and woke up still groggy. A cup of coffee is usually enough to get us going, especially when it’s that...

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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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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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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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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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