Month: July 2025

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…