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

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Season 4, already back on dry land

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Fri 19 Jul – Day in Ios

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

Sun 14 Jul to Tue 16 Jul – Paros to Antiparos

Fri 12 Jul and Sat 13 Jul – Paros

Mon 8 Jul to Wed 11 Jul – Sifnos

Sun 7 Jul – Syros to Sifnos

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

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

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

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

Mon 24 Jun – Getting started with the repair in Finikas

Sun 23 Jun – Bini gets damaged in Finikas

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