Jacana

Our plan is to go North, ultimately towards Thessaloniki for summer lift out and then in September on to Leros for over wintering. So we need to navigate the Chalkida bridge, which joins Evia with the mainland. Despite being the…

At last time to launch. We were scheduled to be 4th in the queue and launch at about 0900, in the end we were fifth and were motoring away by 0930. Before this however, a final few jobs, top up…

Well we’re back on board. The flight from Gatwick was over an hour leaving due to thunderstorms over Athens, so the plane sat on the tarmac and waited. But at least the Easyjet cabin staff did offer free water, and…

A few days in Athens with lots of photos

As the sun came up, we heard activity from the Boatclub with the it boat trailer being pushed out to sea. 10 mins later we were on the trailer being hauled out for the winter. So time to put Jacana…

We left Karavos with a 15kn wind behind us which was then on our beam as we rounded the headland towards Eretria, so for about an hour we had a pleasant final sail of the season. The wind then died…

We left Buffalo Bay after lunch and actually managed a decent sail with well reefed sails in the 20-30kt northerly along the coast towards Karavos. Things changed once we rounded the headland in sight of Karavos and the final 4…

This was yet another day with 20-30kt gusts on the bow and with 4′ waves breaking over the bow. We’d intended doing about 15 miles to anchor in a sheltered mainland area, but decided to drive on further north for…

We had a decision to make. The forecast was for F5/6 gusting F7 from the north for several days ahead, and we need to go north! In the end we decided to give it a go, knowing that there were…

We were hoping for a brisk broad reach sail for the 20 miles across to Sounion Bay, but unfortunately the 15 to 25 kt wind was too close to the bow and with a moderate sea we managed to sail…