Jacana

Another long leg again, between the islands on Limnos and Lesbos, so we managed to get away just before dawn at 0630 and managed to sail for nearly 5 hours of the 11.5 passage before the wind died off to…

We raised anchor at 0600 for the 63 mile, 12 hour crossing to the istand of Limnos and the beautiful small town of Myrina. Unfortunately the wind was more on the bow than forecast, although we did manage to sail…

Anchoring in Ormos Panagia, we were immediately confronted with the problem with this area, hundreds of day boats whizzing round everywhere, often coming straight at you at a fast speed, rather disconcerting.So once it had cooled down slightly we went…

Still in search of fuel, we opted for Marina Miraggio one the few, but very expensive marinas in the area, and only a couple of miles out of our way towards Koufos. So with no wind, dead calm water, no…

After a very early flight from Gatwick, we arrived back at the boat yard at about 1300 on Sunday, letting ourselves in with the key hanging on a piece of string near the gate. Fortunately the guard dog was very…

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.