We’d tried to make an earlyish start from Porto Lafia , but as we turned the plotter on, it decided to do a factory reset. An hour later and after lots of swearing, we were on our way heading further…

Still the Meltemi blows from the north with 20 to 30 knot gusts, so again we headed north to the harbour of Karavos, where weather predictions suggest that the Meltemi effects should be reduced owing to the greater width of…

With the wind blowing below 20 knots, although still from the north, we had a good sail 12 miles westward to the town of Eretrea, anchoring in 10m off the main beach. Being Wimbledon ladies final day and with temperatures…

Up at 5am to motor the 4 miles across the Evia channel to be hauled out for a few weeks at the Boatclub in Chalkoutsi. As we approached the boat yard at 7am we could see someone standing at water…

Despite arriving in Athens an hour late, George the taxi driver was waiting for us to take us the 50 miles to the Boatclub at Chalkoutsi. So a couple of very warm beers enjoying a balmy evening in the cockpit…

Just a couple of hours hop to the island of Kavalianni. As one of us had the ab dabs, probably caused by him drinking some very flat and cloudy beer, we decided to stay for a couple of nights. We…

Just a one night anchorage sheltering from the overnight winds, and as we’d been in here before, we stayed onboard. (not that there’s anything ashore!). As predicted, the wind was gusting all night, probably up to F6/7 and continued as…

We had stopped here for a few nights a couple of months ago, this time however, rather than fighting a side wind to moor up stern to, we opted for the luxury of port side to against the harbour wall….

With a F4/5 northerly forecast for the 20 mile run south to Kea, we were expecting a reasonable sail. However, the actual wind direction had other plans and was about F3 from the South, so we ended motoring in a…

At last the wind had swung round to the north, with the F5, gusting F6 giving us a fast and fairly comfortable beam reach across to the mainland to anchor in the relative shelter of Sounion Bay, in the shadow…