We’ve been waiting for a day with favourable winds for what feels like an eternity. It’s either been too windy or there’s been no wind at all. But for the most time it’s just been blowing like crazy...
We’ve been on somewhat of a roll lately with our running routine and thought it would be a good idea to get up early and get the run out of the way. When we landed the dinghy in the beach we were surprised to find no...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
