For the past 10 years we have visited the Ionian but we have never experienced such extreme weather. After writing about the idyllic harbour of Fiskardo last week, there was a dramatic change in the weather, a rare hurricane was due to hit the area with the eye of the storm to go over Cephalonia. […]
We headed south to Fiskardo, one of our favourite places on the island of Cephalonia, apparently the only village on the island that wasn’t destroyed in the 1953 earthquake. A really pretty old fishing harbour with colourful Venetian buildings, now a very busy tourist location. The bay is full of boats and visited daily by […]
We returned to Vlikho bay on the island of Lefkas as there was some strong winds forecast and wanted a good protected anchorage to sit out the storm. The winds came early evening with gusts up to 40 knots, luckily our anchor held tight. (In fact, when we left a couple of days later we […]
This has been something we’ve planned to do for some time having had ongoing frustrations with our current low capacity lead acid batteries. These are not really suitable for long term living aboard and we have generally had to replace at least one of them every year. At the moment we are reliant on being […]
We had spent 5 days at anchor without any shops nearby, we had nearly run out of food apart from pasta and beans, and we were getting very low on water, neither of these were too much of a problem until we realised that we had a real crisis on board – we had no […]
Originally we had planned to have a stainless steel arch made to hold solar panels but due to the delay in getting here and the season being cut short we decided to take matters into our own hands, and install two flexible panels on top of the Bimini. Step 1 – Making the fabric frame […]
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