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Motored in no wind conditions, but lumpy sea. At the beggars of the peninsula had hard Katabolic winds. Anchored off a military island. Calm conditions, sand

Beautiful calm morning. Very little wind and swell for first third of the trip, then a fair wind and swell from abeam for the middle section and then fairly strong wind and swell on a broad reach ending with about 20 kts at Durres port.

Started the day with 20kn downwind dash Had main up and Genoa.then pulled down main and put out code zero Wind dropped and motored balance. About 1m swell. Coast is quite exposed and battled to find protected anchorage. Finally chose Porto Palermo, but rolled quite a bit.

Awake during the morning due to the big swells coming onshore and making it very unpleasant. At roughly 7.30 to 8 the weather started deteriorating, wind and waves picked up substantially! Contacted the Harbourmaster and requested permission to enter the port area for protection. Very helpful Harbourmaster approved and arranged a berth inside. On raiing the anchor Murphy popped around and we were entangled in yet another crab pot and line at the most inopertune time. Jackie and Jade struggled in very difficult conditions and eventually got the anchor up, we proceeded to the spot in the harbour which was very difficult to approach due to being blown onto and around a tug or two! Eventually had a safe mooring onto a wall with loose pipes etc. We were given permission to wait out the storm until about 2.30pm and then we left and found a good anchorage with swell protection a little way down the coast.

Coffee at 8 and then off to customs dock for 9am checkout from Bar, Montenegro. Did some fruit and veg shopping whilst the Harbourmaster was still out. Returned later and finished check out, and then back to the dock to do a pivot out and commenced our journey south to Shengjin, Albania check in. Head on wind initially and then it died and we started making a fair speed with the main and a motor on. Got to our Agent Orion at about 19h00 and started our check in. Thunderstorm activity and a bad swell coming onshore into the anchorage made for a very unpleasant evening.

Quite and onto the nose. Had a fun tender trip up the channel.