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Summer 2021

Last Sail of the Season

After our passage from Greece and arriving at Siracusa, we were looking forward to a good nights sleep and a lazy morning. However, early in the morning we heard knocking on the boat and someone calling us. We hurriedly got up and went to see what was going on. Some fishermen were outside and not […]

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Summer 2021

Passage to Sicily

Checking out of Greece was more straight forward than checking in, however, the day that we arrived in Lefkas to submit our documents turned out to be a national holiday in Greece and so the Customs Office was closed. Every year there is a big celebration for Ohi or Oxi Day (which translates to ‘No’ […]

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Summer 2021

Head’s Down

The recent storms have all passed over and we were looking forward to enjoying some lovely sunny weather….or so we thought! There’s always plenty of maintenance jobs when living on a boat, we had an ever increasing list but nothing too serious and hoped that we could save some of them to do over the […]

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Summer 2021

Stormy Weather

The expected 30-40kt winds came but in the shelter of Vlikho bay we hardly felt it, only a few gusts up to 20kts were able to get around the hills and into the bay. Vlikho is a large bay approximately half a mile wide and we were anchored on the east side which is a […]