I woke feeling quite tired - probably the hear and had a very lazy morning fiddling with the engine and fixing the broken strut on the solar panel - well, bodging it. I then had lunch which was made up of the last of the tomatoes and the last of the cheese, washed up, brushed my teeth and by this point it was 2pm so time to go. I got the dinghy in, etc, got the covers off - I expected to be downwind most of the way so took the winch covers off straightaway and lifted the anchor. there was about 10-12 knots in the anchorage. I had to motor over the anchor to get it to pop out but as soon as it was up, the bow blew off to starboard. I walked back to the cockpit, got the Genny out, stuck on the autopilot and turned the engine off. we sailed downwind at about 4 knots and it was so nice that I thought about heading to a further anchorage. in the end I decided not to as I needed provisions. I went north of the little island guarding the bay to Vonitsa and then made the turn. the wind came on the beam and was 15-17 knots. I still only had the Genoa out but was happily going along at 4 knots. in fact I took the Genoa down to the two reefs point. I had to (chose to?) use the starboard self tailing winch to bring it in. in an ideal world I would have rerouted the Genoa sheet inside the stanchions butni only had about a mile and a half to run so left it as was. there were a few white caps on the way in but the further I got into the bay, the more this came onto my stern. I turned the engine on just outside the anchorage and motored in looking for a suitable place to drop the hook. the anchorage shelves a bit so I drove around a bit at low speed and then dropped the anchor in about 5m. I let out about 20m chain but then looking at the chart I thought I was too close to shallower water, especially as the chart had more water showing than my depth (usually it's the other way around). I lifted the anchor again, got fairly close to a German boat and dropped the anchor there. I asked and the skipper said he had 40m of chain out (in about 5-6m) so I let out the same amount. the anchor bit straightaway and held steady when I gave it the beans. All in all, a decent sail 

Hospital Bay to Vonitsa

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