Jacana

A couple of nights at anchor in the fairly sheltered Papantria Bay on the southern coast of Lipsi, sheltering from what now looks like permanent northerlies. On Thursday we took the dingy ashore and walked to Lipsi village and back…

With strong northerlies forecast, we opted for Lakki Marina for a few nights, and it’s free as we’re still under contract with Moor and Dock. Having lost our boat cover last winter, we got quoted for a new one to…

Tonight a mooring buoy, the fee for which is having to eat in one of the two tavernas, depending on whether you choose a red or a white buoy. Once the day had cooled down a bit we went for…

We’d ideally liked to have anchored off Pserimos for a night, but because of the constant armada of tourist boats from Kos, we reluctantly gave it a miss, instead opting for somewhere on the eastern coast of Kalymnos. We initially…

We managed a slow sail across to Kos, although had to motor the last 3 miles as we rounded the south eastern headland. With the wind howling through Kos marina, the Marino with the aid of his rib tied to…

Symi is the most south easterly of our intented travels in this area, and with the prevailing winds from the north and north west, a windless day was the opportunity to motor out of Symi, and not fight head winds….

Very little wind again so motored round the east side of Symi to the spectacular town of Symi, with its stunning neoclassical architecture clinging to the steep harbour sides. We’d been here years ago on a flotilla holiday where we…

Well according to the forecast, we should have had a great sail the 25 miles east to the island of Symi. Instead the wind died after a couple of hours and we ended up motoring most of the way to…

Just a one night stop at anchor in Potamos Bay on Chalki (pronounced Halki) after sailing south for about 11 miles and motoring the other 11. Interestingly we had a northwesterly as we went south, and as we rounded the…

Another harbour, this one quite small and definitely not free like our previous, €42 for 2 nights excluding water and electricity! And not a great deal to see on the island, apart from a large and fairly modern Chora (the…