Jackie Hahn

Beautiful day. Motored down to Ksamil, stopped for an hour and then off to Butrint. Passed the fort at the entrance to the river and anchored up near the derelict buildings on the way to the Castle. Very calm and a beautiful sunset coming up.

Nice morning in the bay before we left and once we got out into the channel a fair NW wind came up. Motored over to Sarande, put up the Q-Flag and went ashore for checking in etc. After checking in with Jelja from Sarande Tours we drew money and purchased internet and stopped for a Pizza before coming back to the boat and raising the Albanian flag. Good sleep and a slow trip down to Ksamil and Butrint for the day and evening.

Long night. Anchor watch for wind change between 1 and 3am. Fair swell and uncomfortable. Internet poor. Birthday morning for Jax with waffles and cake! 🧇🎂. Upped anchor and headed North around headland and into Avlaki Bay, great spot between 2 keelers and just off the beach. Ended up being 8 boats overnight. Beautiful spot to chill for last anchorage before crossing to Sarande, Albania and Montenegro for the next 3 months.

Check out day! Moved around Corfu Old Town and up around the point to Kerkira. Port Police, Customs, Passports and back to Port Police to check out for Sarande, Albania 🇦🇱. Took the dinghy up the river to Lidl and went to go buy some Birthday snacks and a Cake for Jax's Birthday tomorrow. Packed in and started heading North towards Sarande. Anchoring in Parasia Bay/Beach tonight

Beautiful and calm at anchorage. Lifted the hook and moved to the channel, 3 to 4 ferries already on the move. Wind light and starting to heat up. 30 to 32 degrees already. Roughly 3 hours to Corfu. Bay is full of boats and we luckily got a spot close to the nearest jetty for later. Music and a beer or two for the afternoon. A swim and shower later and a trip into the old town.

Calm with very little wind. Max 6 knts or so. Split the trio up to Corfu by stopping after 23nm up from Parga. Big bay for anchoring, only one keeler down at the town, we are the only boat up against the peninsula. Great holding and protection at these low wind speeds. Plenty of ferries traversing the channel but pretty far away from the anchorage. Should be a good sleep tonight!

Rest day in Preveza, Jax and Jadie went provisioning at Lidl in the heat on the bicycles. Took a walk through the Marina and the main promenade of Preveza. Made a refuel run to the fuel dock in the Marina. (250L @ 1.77). All stocked and refuelled for the journey early tomorrow to Parga. The earlier thunderstorm made a short reappearance and the wind swung about 120' and shot up to 25 knts plus before luckily moving away to the SW. Canadian F1 shortly and then a good rest before sunrise start tomorrow.

Calm with light wind up to 10 to 12 kts. Finally moved from our regular anchorage at the beach through the Lefkada floating bridge and motor sailed up to the start of the entrance channel into Preveza. Nearly had an accident when some boat tried passing a catamaran and came head on at us, severe evasive turn away and back before the channel marker, very close incident! Found an anchor spot in amongst many other boats. Pretty full and an expected thunderstorm in about an hour or so. Hopefully not too bad and then some rugby and a beer!

Getting warmer now, 31 on the gauge today. Short hop down for last anchorage at Kariotes Beach tonight. Leaving for a possible refuel at D-Marin before making the 12 o clock floating bridge opening enroute to Preveza.