Jacana

We upped anchor at about 0730, and motored the 6 miles across Thessaloniki Bay to Lampros xxx’s boatyard to be hauled out at 0900. Three hours later we’d been pulled out on a hydraulic sled and propped up (they were…

33 miles today and a really good sail, literally all the way with a brisk southerly wind. We even had a visit from a few dolphins for a couple of minutes. We then dropped anchor for a couple of nights,…

A 40 miler today and unfortunately motoring for 3/4 of it, to the rather rundown harbour at Nea Moudania. The main pontoon had certainly seen better days, with large gaps, some with planks to walk across, between the wider gaps…

We’ve started heading to Thessaloniki now for our summer haul out on Friday. This was a lovely sheltered bay, with just us and a fishing boat, although that left at 2.30am in the morning.

Back to the shelter of Porto Koufo for some strongish winds forecast for Sunday (it seems that we’re getting strong winds every weekend!) and anchoring in the same spot from a couple of days ago. So the chance for a…

One thing we’re discovering is that the gulf between the first and second finger, and the gulf up towards Thessaloniki both lack good protective anchorages and reasonably well maintained and managed harbours. The exceptions being 2 or 3 VERY expensive…

A 40 mile leg to the north today, to the middle of the 3 fingers that hang down from the north Greece coast. Typically the wind for such a passage would be on the nose. Today however there was no…

We’d actually been here on a flotilla holiday in about 2010, and the only change over the years is that the island of Kira Panagia is now in the Alonnisos National Park, and consequently now costs €35 per night plus…

Just 1 night at anchor off Limnonari Beach before heading across, with a good sail on Friday to the sheltered bay at Milia on the south coast of Alonnisos. Here anchoring is forbidden, so we picked up the last of…

Back to the pontoon at Skiathos town for a couple of nights to restock and wait for the Tuesday’s arrival of Fern and Stew. The airport is not far away so we walked there and walked back to Jacana with…