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 next to nothing. The sea between Limnos and Lesbos is the main shipping route from the Black Sea to the rest of the world, so we were excited to be radioed by a large tanker to pass behind him. It broke the boredom!
59 miles later we arrived in Sigri Bay on the western end of Lesbos. Unusually for us, it took us 5 attempts to get the anchor to hold but we persevered and eventually got it to set well. Again the opportunity to wine and dine with Rob and Debbie, Northern Star, and also visit together the truly excellent and modern museum devoted to a local petrified forest. Apparently volcanic ash covered large forests millions of years ago and over time, and ‘molecule by molecule’ organic matter was replaced with minerals to leave very spectacular petrified wood.
Like Myrina, Sigri also had a fort, although unfortunately was closed for renovations.
On the subject of anchors, Rob woke up on our first night in the anchorage and spotted a drifting boat, and got in his tender to wake up the skipper and help reset his anchor. Just as well as the boat was getting very close to rocks. However, the skippers approach to anchoring simply involved dumping anchor and chain over the front and hoping for the best, so the fact that he drifted on a difficult sea bed was not surprising.
